More Sayings About Friendship

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“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.” 
– E.W. Howe

“If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it. ”
– Edgar Watson Howe

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. ”
– Edith Wharton

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” 
– Elbert Hubbard

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ”
– Elisabeth Foley

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.  ”
– Emil Ludwig

“Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? ”
– Emily Brontë

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” 
– Epicurus

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” 
– Ethel Barrymore

“It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.” 
– Euripides

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
– Euripides

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” 
– Eustache Deschamps

“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.  “ 
– Frances Ward Weller

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement”.
– George Adams

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ”
– George MacDonald

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana

“Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
– Georgia O’Keefe

“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  “ 
– Grace Pulpit

“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” 
– Gwyneth Paltrow

“A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.  “ 
– Heather Pryor

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.  The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in” an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ”
– Henri Nouwen

“The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him.  They cherish each other’s hopes.  They are kind to each other’s dreams. ”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” 
– Henry David Thoreau

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend.  “ 
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“In my friend, I find a second self. ”
– Isabel Norton

“Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter.  I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front.  We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.  I don’t want to lose this happy space where I have” found someone who is smart and easy and doesn’t bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.”
– Jeanette Winterson

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ”
– John Leonard

“One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
– Jonathan Swift

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