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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Samuel Butler.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
As we join hands in fellowship
around this bountiful table,
we give thanks for the blessings of this food
and the love of these friends
as a symbol of our gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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