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May you find great value in these quotes by James Francis Byrnes.
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
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
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
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 the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
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