More Sayings About Friendship

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“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

“You can always tell a real friend:  when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. ”
– Laurence J. Peter

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.  “ 
– Leo Buscaglia

“Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.”
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.  “ 
– Lois Wyse

“Friendship is Love, without his wings. ”
– Lord Byron

“Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ”
– Margaret Lee Runbeck

“One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.”
– Mark Twain

“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” 
– Marlene Dietrich

“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.”
– Mary Kay Ash

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ”
– Mencius

“We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.” 
– Mignon McLaughlin

“It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.  ”
– Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

“Hold a true friend with both your hands. ”
– Nigerian Proverb

“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.  “ 
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843

“True friends stab you in the front.” 
– Oscar Wilde

“A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.  “ 
– Pam Brown

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ”
– Plautus

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.  ”
– Plutarch

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.  Before him I may think aloud.  I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.  “ 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.  “ 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.  “ 
– Robert Brault

“Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.  “ 
– Robert Brault

“I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. ”
– Robert Brault

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ”
– Robert Brault

“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” 
– Robert Brault

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