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Friendship Quote by George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who walked into your life, said 'I'm here for you,' and proved it.

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Friendship is the wine of life.

Edward Young

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Edna Buchanan

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Elie Wiesel

A good friend knows all your best stories. A best friend has lived them with you.

Unknown

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Muhammad Ali

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

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A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

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There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Cicero

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth Foley

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

Steve Maraboli

Friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

Nicole Richie

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

Irish Proverb

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Douglas Pagels

A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be.

Unknown

True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Ed Cunningham

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Donna Roberts

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

Alexander Dumas

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Mencius

A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.

Heidi Wills

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.

Anna Taylor

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Linda Grayson

A true friend is forever a friend.

George MacDonald

A single loyal friend is worth five thousand relatives.

Euripides

There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.

Unknown

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Miley Cyrus

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.

Helen Keller

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracián

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends are the family you choose.

Jess C. Scott

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Donna Roberts

True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.

Unknown

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Evelyn

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

Life is better with true friends.

Unknown

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

C.S. Lewis

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils.

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

David Tyson

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

Unknown

Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest, it’s about who walked into your life, said 'I’m here for you,' and proved it.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be anywhere else.

Len Wein

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.

Unknown

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

Friends are the people who make you smile brighter, laugh louder, and live better.

Unknown

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

William Shakespeare

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'

C.S. Lewis

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Seneca

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Khalil Gibran

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Thomas Aquinas

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Eugene Kennedy

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides