1.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Oscar Wilde
I have no desire to ascend to the afterlife. None of my acquaintances are present in the beyond.
4.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven
5.
A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.
Prince
6.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
7.
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon
8.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman
10.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
11.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell
12.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone
13.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
14.
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
15.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
Rod McKuen
16.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
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The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
Plautus
20.
Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends.
Robert Breault
21.
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
22.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Mary Catherwood
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The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.
David Storey
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran
28.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. Forster
29.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
30.
If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
Mary Browne
31.
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
William Shakespeare
32.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran
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If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
S. E. Hinton
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What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
Jeffrey Archer
41.
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
Jim Henson
44.
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
William Penn
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Abraham Lincoln
47.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
Toni Morrison
48.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
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Real men are real friends, showing their real commitment.
KRS-One