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Quotes about Friends


It is better that he die and move on to eternal life. You lose him, you think. You have lost nothing. A bodily presence, a voice, the gestures of friendship.

Is it not a pleasure to learn and to repeat or practice from time to time what has been learned? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar? Is one not a superior man if he does not feel hurt even though he does not feel recognized?

Confucius

acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Ambrose Bierce

Make friends before you need them.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Sicilian proverb

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

Edgar W. Howe

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never, never surrender to what is right.

Dan Quayle

Never explain - your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyhow.

Elbert Hubbard

Never explain - your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyhow.

Elbert Hubbard

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.

Never explain - your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyhow.

Elbert Hubbard

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert Humphrey

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

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

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.

Samuel Johnson

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