“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
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friendship
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“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
“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.”
“If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.”
“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”
“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”
“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.”
“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.”
“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”
“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
“Friendship and money: oil and water.”
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”
“Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”