James F. Byrnes - Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Jane Green - I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Eleanor Roosevelt - Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Maria Shrive - When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Mohanlal - Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox - All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Kenneth Branagh - Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Lauren Conrad - Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
William Wycherley - Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
Yolanda Hadid - I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.
Robert Southey - No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Charles Kingsley - It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means.
Jodie Foster - My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
Jean de la Bruyere - Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Plautus - Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Francesco Guicciardini - Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Margaret Lee Runbeck - Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Len Wein - A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Confucius - Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Arnold H. Glasow - A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Doug Larson - A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
William Penn - A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Herman Melville - Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Thomas A. Edison - I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Elizabeth Taylor - You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Katherine Mansfield - I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
John Webster - Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
W. Somerset Maugham - When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Laurence J. Peter - You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Shirley MacLaine - Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Justin Bieber - Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.
Washington Irving - Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Mignon McLaughlin - It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Giotto di Bondone - The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Chanakya - There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Walter Winchell - A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Elie Wiesel - Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Plutarch - I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Elbert Hubbard - Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Charles Darwin - A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
C. S. Lewis - Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Bill Watterson - Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Epicurus - It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Abraham Lincoln - Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Jim Morrison - A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
Thomas Aquinas - There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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