FRIENDSHIP QUOTES II

quotations about friendship

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Friendship is what gets you through all the third-grade boys making fun of you.

REBECCA HEYDON

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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself: we cannot force it any more than love.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over the moon.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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One would think that the larger the company is, in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started in discourse; but instead of this, we find that conversation is never so much straitened and confined as in numerous assemblies. When a multitude meet together upon any subject of discourse, their debates are taken up chiefly with forms and general positions; nay, if we come into a more contracted assembly of men and women, the talk generally runs upon the weather, fashions, news, and the like public topics. In proportion as conversation gets into clubs and knots of friends, it descends into particulars, and grows more free and communicative: but the most open, instructive, and unreserved discourse is that which passes between two persons who are familiar and intimate friends. On these occasions, a man gives a loose to every passion and every thought that is uppermost, discovers his most retired opinions of persons and things, tries the beauty and strength of his sentiments, and exposes his whole soul to the examination of his friend.

JOSEPH ADDISON

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

RAY BRADBURY

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

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We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.

KIMBERLY KIRBERGER

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The Friendship which is to be recommended, is union of affections, springing from a generous respect to virtue, and is maintained by harmony of manners. It's a great mistake to call every trifling commerce by this serious name; or to suppose that empty compliments and visits of ceremony, where no more's intended than to pass the time, and show the equipage, should pass for a real and well established Friendship. The frequency of the practice won't wipe off the absurdity; there is as wide a difference as between a bully and a man of honour.

WELLINS CALCOTT

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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Trying to be someone's friend was just a waste of precious time better spent on self-improvement.

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN

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Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

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There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.

MASON COOLEY

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fiber of the human heart.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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In a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods.

FRANCIS BACON

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I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

MACKEY MILLER

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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

CHARLES LAMB

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It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

FRANCIS BACON

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For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

FRANCIS BACON

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