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Quotes about Friends


Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.

Dr. Jeffrey Anonymous

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

Abraham Cowley

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Marjorie Holmes

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Bible

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Publilius Syrus

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure—the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]

Marcus Terentius Varro

Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

William Shakespeare

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. -Unknown-.

French Unknown-

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Tony Blair

Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.

George James de Wilde

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

Proverbs 24:26

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

Jack Handey

Obliged by hunger and request of friends.

Alexander Pope

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Sheila Ballantyne

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Edward Gibbon

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.

Gregory Nunn

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

Edgar Watson Howe

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Barbara Bush

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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