Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bonds That Tie - Page 27

Celebrate the bonds of friendship with our handpicked quotes. Cherish and appreciate your friends through timeless words. Page 27 provides more friendship quotes.

Image of Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.
- Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
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Image of Charles Hanson Towne
Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.
- Charles Hanson Towne
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Image of Robert N. Lee
Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.
- Robert N. Lee
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Image of Carrie Jacobs-Bond
And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
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Image of Charlotte Charke
But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.
- Charlotte Charke
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Image of Helen Exley
The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me.
- Helen Exley
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Image of Mindy Kaling
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
- Mindy Kaling
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Image of Samuel Parr
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
- Samuel Parr
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Image of Charles Lamb
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
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Image of Lisa Loeb
You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.
- Lisa Loeb
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Image of Ben E. King
When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.
- Ben E. King
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Image of Ben E. King
If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.
- Ben E. King
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Image of Abraham Kuyper
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
- Abraham Kuyper
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Image of Henry Adams
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Adams
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Image of Louis Kronenberger
Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.
- Louis Kronenberger
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Image of Carole King
Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.
- Carole King
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Image of Ashton Carter
We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.
- Ashton Carter
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Image of Cyndi Lauper
I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
- Cyndi Lauper
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Image of Anne Lamott
Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of Jack Layton
Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.
- Jack Layton
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Image of Johanna Lindsey
What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory-
- Johanna Lindsey
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Image of Florence King
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.
- Florence King
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Image of Edward Lear
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
- Edward Lear
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Image of Charles de Lint
There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
- Charles de Lint
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Image of Margaret Laurence
Follow your heart, and you perish.
- Margaret Laurence
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Image of Sinclair Lewis
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
- Sinclair Lewis
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Image of Steig Larsson
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
- Steig Larsson
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Image of Henry A. Kissinger
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
- Henry A. Kissinger
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Image of J. K. Bharavi
The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
- J. K. Bharavi
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Image of Shirley MacLaine
Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.
- Shirley MacLaine
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Image of Rod McKuen
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
- Rod McKuen
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Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Image of Isaac Barrow
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
- Isaac Barrow
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Image of Tim McGraw
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Tim McGraw
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Image of Judith Martin
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers.
- Judith Martin
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Image of Lawrence G. Lovasik
If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Image of Randi Reisfeld
Friends are everything. They're people you can tell anything to, do fun stuff with, laugh at the same jokes with, who understand what you're going through 'cause they're going through it, too. Friends get it.
- Randi Reisfeld
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Image of Richard Barnfield
Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.
- Richard Barnfield
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Image of James Russell Lowell
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of Joan Lunden
I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.
- Joan Lunden
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Image of Bob Marley
True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.
- Bob Marley
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Image of Konrad Lorenz
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
- Konrad Lorenz
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Image of Konrad Lorenz
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
- Konrad Lorenz
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Image of Jay McInerney
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
- Jay McInerney
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Image of Margaret Lee Runbeck
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
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Image of William Barclay
I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
- William Barclay
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Image of Dave Matthews
Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.
- Dave Matthews
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Image of Isabel Lucas
My best friend was Aboriginal.
- Isabel Lucas
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