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Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. - Joseph Parry

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. — Joseph Parry

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. — William Wycherley

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love. — Brian Houston

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Old friends are best. — John Selden

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time — Unknown Author

It's friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run. — James Clear

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. - Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. — Rabindranath Tagore

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions. — Wallace Stegner

One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs. — Terry Kay

A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye. — Anonymous

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. — Kenneth Branagh

No friendship is an accident. — O. Henry

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship. — Susan Polis Schutz

Friendship Quotes

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. - Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. — Bob Marley

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Long lasting friendships quote I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones — John Lennon

Long lasting friendships quote A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forg
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. — St. Basil

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz

To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again. — Laura Ortiz

Long Life Friendship Quotes

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone de Beauvoir

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out. — Michael Bassey

When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good. — Helen Keller

Long lasting friendships quote It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them. — Madame de Stael

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life! — Jessye Norman

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. — Anna Garlin Spencer

Long lasting friendships quote Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. — H. L. Mencken

There's this quote that says "friendship isn't how long you've known someone, but who walked into your life, said 'I'm here for you' and proved it." — Camila Cabello

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Long Ago Quotes

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. — George Bernard Shaw

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. — Hunter S. Thompson

Long lasting friendships quote Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man. — Frederic Chopin

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight. — Bayard Rustin

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself. — Jesse Owens

Long lasting friendships quote One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. — Haruki Murakami

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life. — Lady Bird Johnson

The problem isn’t that we don’t know how not to get punched in the face. The problem is that, at some point, likely a long time ago, we got punched in the face, and instead of punching back, we decided we deserved it. — Mark Manson

Long Book Quotes

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. — Robert Munsch

Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David

Long lasting friendships quote Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.

Even today, what to study and how to study it are more important than where to study it and for how long. The best teachers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best peers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. — Naval Ravikant

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. — Suzanne Collins

So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams

Long lasting friendships quote How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. — E. M. Forster

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. — Kathleen Thompson Norris

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own. — Charles Bolden

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. — Kathleen Norris

Last Dance Quotes

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, Because the dance with the devil might last you forever. — Immortal Technique

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. — Robert Alton Harris

Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar... Or, as you like to call it, delicatessen. — Sean Hughes

Long lasting friendships quote No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn arou
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.

Dance every performance as if it were your last. — Erik Bruhn

The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. — Rudolf Nureyev

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. — Jean Dubuffet

Long lasting friendships quote I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.
I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.

When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust. — Elizabeth Streb

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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More Long Lasting Friendships Quotes

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. — Unknown

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good. — Reinhold Niebuhr

The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships. — Benjamin Spock

A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement. — Matthew Reilly

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. — Elbert Hubbard

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give. — Marlin K. Jensen

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love. — Lisa Kleypas

All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure. — Michael Chabon

That men in armour may be born With serpents' teeth the field is sown; Rains mould, winds bend, suns gild the corn Too quickly ripe, too early mown. I scan the quivering heads, behold The features, catch the whispered breath Of friends long garnered in the cold Unopening granaries of death, Whose names in solemn cadence ring Across my slow oblivious page. Their friendship was a finer thing Than fame, or wealth, or honoured age, And--while you live and I--shall last Its tale of seasons with us yet Who cherish, in the undying past, The men we never can forget. — Charles Kenneth (C.K.) ScottMoncrieff

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. — Paul Getty

We essentially spent our college years together [with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg], so those were the kind of lasting friendships and the bond you form during those years, and those friendships last a really long time. — David Krumholtz

Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness. — Tana French

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place. — Samuel Johnson

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