“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president
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“There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Friends are the sunshine of life.”
Source: Poems
“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
“Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.”
Source: That Was Then, This Is Now
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.”
“Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.”
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
“I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.”
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.”
Source: In Bohemia
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
“The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.”
“Let your best be for your friend.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”
“Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.”
“Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.”
Source: Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them
Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea
“Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.”
“There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.”
“We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.”
“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.”
Source: Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them
“If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
Source: Table-talk