| "The
rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end."
-- Robert Alan
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The greatest sweetener
of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,
is a secret which but few discover.
-- Joseph Addison
"A faithful
friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha
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"Wishing
to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." --
Aristotle "Friendship
is essentially a partnership." -- Aristotle
"What
is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -- Aristotle. |
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"I
keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted
us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino
(1537)
"There
is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc
"Two
are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they
fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he
falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes
4:9-10.
"A
friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.
"A companion
loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the
man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)
"Friendship
is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness
of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)
"Friendship
is Love without his wings!"
-- Lord Byron (1806)
"Friendship
makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing
it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)
Friendship
improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing
of our grief
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"True
friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
No
one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone
means by friendship.
-- Francis Marion Crawford
A
friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings
"If
you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
-- Moshe Dayan
My
friends are my estate.
-- Emily Dickinson