A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. RockefellerRead
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
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.
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.
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
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.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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