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A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
by Madame Swetchine

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln) PHOTO

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich PHOTO

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher PHOTO

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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

 

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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