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Friendship Quotes
Friendship, built one closeness at a time.
One memorable line compares living without friends to milking a bear for cream — a lot of trouble for little reward — while another describes how an ordinary friendship deepens once two people really get to know each other. See our Friendship Messages for more ways to put it into words.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- He
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As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.
- Happy
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Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
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No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
- Lose
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
- Politics
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
- Marriage
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Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.
- Life
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
- Habitual
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Love
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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
- Poetry
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When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
- Human
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Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
- Best Time
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Life
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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
- Decision
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