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Quotes and Expressions



  • I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends. - William Shakespeare
  • What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
  • I get by with a little help from my friends. - John Lennon
  • A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. - Euripides
  • Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubbard
  • A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
  • However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
  • God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian Proverb
  • Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. - Virginia Woolf
  • True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. - David Tyson Gentry
  • Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. - Anonymous
  • Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! - Amanda Bradley
  • A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. - Bernard Meltzer
  • The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some Quotes & Expressions provided by The Society of American Florists