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“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

“Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.”

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

“Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.”

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.”

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

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

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

“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.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

“True friends stab you in the front.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not 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.”

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

“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.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“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?”

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.”

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”