Friendship quotes
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"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy."
"When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
"Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery."
"The best mirror is an old friend."
"If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
"Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way."
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
