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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Author, Unknown

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?
Kennedy, Eugene

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Unknown, Author

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Gracian, Baltasar

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Author, Unknown

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Santayana, George

Friendship is love with understanding.
Author, Unknown

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Craik, Dinah

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind."Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw."I just wanted to be sure of you."
Milne, A.A.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Jefferson, Thomas

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
Unknown, Author

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Menclus

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Author, Unknown

Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
Strait, C. Neil

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

A hug is the shortest distance between friends.
Unknown, Author

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Author, Unknown

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Miller, Alice Duer

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Author, Unknown

A hedge between keeps friendship green.
Author, Unknown

Love is friendship set on fire.
Taylor, Jeremy

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Paltrow, Gwyneth

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.
Howe, Edgar Watson

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Guicciardini, Francesco

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Blake, William

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Colton, Charles Caleb

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Humphrey, Hubert

True friends stab you in the front.
Wilde, Oscar

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

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

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Schweitzer, Albert

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Woolf, Virginia

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Tagore, Rabindranath

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Author, Unknown

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a. m. that matter.
Dietrich, Marlene

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
Unknown, Author

When 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.
Howe, Edward W.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Author, Unknown

The building of friendship, family, community and love is more complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Near, Holly