Short Friend Quotes

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

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Friendship, Happy

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Positive, Family

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

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

  Ethel Barrymore

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Best Friend

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• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

  Mencius

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• A friend is a gift you give yourself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

  Rod McKuen

  Friendship, Real Friends, Strangers And Friends

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• It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Friendship, Falling In Love, Real

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Patience, Cousin

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.258, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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