Quotes about friends and friendship

"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog."

Franklin, Miles on friends and friendship
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"Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent."

Frazier, S. M. on friends and friendship   

"Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand."

Frost, Robert on friends and friendship   

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"A good friend is my nearest relation."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."

Gabirol, Ibn on friends and friendship   

"The good man is the friend of all living things."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."

Gay, John on friends and friendship
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"Your friend is your needs answered."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Let your best be for your friend..."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship   

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on friends and friendship   

"Everybody needs one essential friend."

Glasser, Dr. William on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind."

Godospeed, Edgar on friends and friendship
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"In comradeship is danger countered best."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

Goldsmith, Oliver on friends and friendship   

"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."

Gracian, Baltasar on friends and friendship   

"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."

Gracian, Baltasar on friends and friendship   

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

Gracian, Baltasar on friends and friendship
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"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

Grant, Ulysses S. on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life."

Grayson, David on friends and friendship   

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"There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY"

Greeley, Andrew M. on friends and friendship
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"Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing."

Hale, Matthew on friends and friendship   

"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."

Hall, Robert on friends and friendship   

"Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship   

"Friendship needs no words..."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship
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"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."

Hathaway, Katherine on friends and friendship   

"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on friends and friendship   

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"Friends are the sunshine of life."

Hay, John on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it."

Hazlip, E.R. on friends and friendship   

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."

Hazlitt, William on friends and friendship