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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde on friendship

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.
Laurence J. Peter on friendship

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde on friendship

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche on friendship

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship

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.
Alice Duer Miller on friendship

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau on friendship

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya on friendship

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on friendship

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford on friendship

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle on friendship

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin on friendship

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey on friendship

He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle on friendship

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.
Paramahansa Yogananda on friendship

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck on friendship

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus on friendship

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott on friendship