Quotes about friends and friendship

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."

Billings, Josh on friends and friendship
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

Blake, William on friends and friendship
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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

Bloch, Arthur on friends and friendship
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing."

Bourne, Randolph S. on friends and friendship
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."

Branagh, Kenneth on friends and friendship
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe."

Breton, Nicholas on friends and friendship
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"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."

Brodsky, Joseph on friends and friendship   

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

Bronte, Charlotte on friends and friendship
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"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"

Bronte, Emily on friends and friendship
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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

Brookner, Anita on friends and friendship
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe."

Brown, John Mason on friends and friendship
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely"

Brown, Pam on friends and friendship
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"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

Bruyere, Jean De La on friends and friendship
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on friends and friendship
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"Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter."

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett on friends and friendship
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"Win hearts, and you have hands and purses."

Burleigh, Lord on friends and friendship
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on friends and friendship
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Buscaglia, Leo on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship
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"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship   

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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

Byrnes, James F. on friends and friendship
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"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."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!"

Canning, George on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

Capote, Truman on friends and friendship
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on friends and friendship
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

Cather, Willa on friends and friendship
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