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A Select Collection of Friends' Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Some of us live for our friends, while others are at constant war with their friends. In any case, friends play a very important part in our lives. Here are some famous authors and speakers sharing their thoughts on friendship.

Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Amanda Bradley
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Czech proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Richard Bach, in Illusions
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become

Albert Camus
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born.

Henry Brooks Adams
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Mary Kay Ash
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

Judy Garland
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

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