Quotes

Published June 30, 2012

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious things. — Randolph S. Bourne

What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. — Frank Crane

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. — Ann Landers

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Erich Segal

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. — Zig Ziglar

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day. — Dalai Lama

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. — Anais Nin

At home one relies on parents; away from home one relies on friends. — Chinese proverb

Memories last forever, never do they die, friends stick together and never really say goodbye. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty. — Sicilian proverb

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them. — Thucydides

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