Friendship Quotes
The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.
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"A true friend is one who knows your flaws and loves you anyway."Maxim Gorky
"I agree that a man should love animals; they are often more faithful than people."Ivan Turgenev
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success."Ivan Turgenev
"A friend who truly knows you is a rare treasure."Ivan Turgenev
"In friendship, as in love, we are often happier for what we do not know."Aleksandr Pushkin
"A true friend is rare and precious beyond measure."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The strongest bonds are forged in suffering."Mikhail Lermontov
"The poor man's friendship is worth more than gold."Mikhail Lermontov
"The greatest gift is being truly seen by another."Mikhail Lermontov
"Friendship requires honesty, even when honesty brings pain."Nikolai Gogol
"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages: first, an agreeable acquaintance, secondly, a mistress, and only then a friend."Anton Chekhov
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod."Anton Chekhov
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."Leo Tolstoy
"Every person has memories which he would not tell to everyone but only to his friends."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Do you know what friendship means? It means absolute understanding."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A true friend is the rarest of all things in this world."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The most precious human possession is a sympathetic ear."Ivan Turgenev
"A true friend stabs you in the front, never in the back."Ivan Turgenev
"Friendship is the shadow of eternity."Ivan Turgenev
"Friendship requires the rarest of virtues: absolute honesty and complete tolerance."Mikhail Lermontov
"A moment of genuine connection outweighs a lifetime of solitude."Mikhail Lermontov
"The best time to make friends is before you need them."Ivan Turgenev
"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."Ivan Turgenev
"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met."William Butler Yeats
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."William Butler Yeats
"Friendship is the only cure for certain kinds of loneliness."Samuel Beckett
"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."Oscar Wilde
"Friendship is a bond that transcends mere proximity or circumstance."Leo Tolstoy
"The price of friendship is understanding."James Joyce
"In old age, we realize that true friends are more valuable than all the wealth in the world."Anton Chekhov