Friendship

(303 votes)   Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author

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(301 votes)   For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.

Arthur S. Hardy

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(301 votes)   There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Françoise d'Aubigné Maintenon

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(295 votes)   A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

Thomas Fuller, M. D

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(295 votes)   Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(269 votes)   At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

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(254 votes)   Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(253 votes)   I get by with a little help from my friends.

John Lennon
1940-1980, English Singer, Songwriter and Political activist, member of the Beatles

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(231 votes)   I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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(228 votes)   I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(220 votes)   We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(217 votes)   It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

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(215 votes)   In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(214 votes)   He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(214 votes)   These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Indian Proverb
Sayings of Indian Origin

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