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Quotes about Friendship

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
—Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

—Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)

• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for
someone else.
—Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• 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 (1898-1963)

• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

—Arnold H. Glasow (1905-1998)

• There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
—John Andrew Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)

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

—Marlene Deitrich (1091-1992)

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
—Oprah Winfrey (b. 1954)

• True friends stab you in the front.
—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• A friend is someone who see through you and still enjoys the view.
—Wilma Askinas (1922-2007)

• Don't mistake personality for character.
—Wilma Askinas (1922-2007)