Quotes about friends and friendship

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

Meltzer, Bernard on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) on friends and friendship
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"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try."

Mermet, Claude on friends and friendship   

"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."

Mizner, Wilson on friends and friendship   

"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."

Montesquieu, Charles De on friends and friendship   

"We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in."

Moody, Jess on friends and friendship   

"God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends."

Mumford, Ethel Watts on friends and friendship
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"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."

Munro, Hector Hugh on friends and friendship   

"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."

Nathan, George Jean on friends and friendship
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"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."

Newman, John Henry on friends and friendship   

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Nin, Anais on friends and friendship
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"In a friend you find a second self."

Norton, Isabelle on friends and friendship   

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right."

Notebook on friends and friendship
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"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."

O'Malley, Austin on friends and friendship   

"A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market."

O'Malley, Austin on friends and friendship   

"As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity."

Ovid on friends and friendship
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"Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust."

Owens, Jesse on friends and friendship   

"Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow."

Paterson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."

Pepys, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world."

Perry, Ralph B. on friends and friendship   

"You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

Peter, Laurence J. on friends and friendship   

"Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards."

Piper, E. K. on friends and friendship
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"Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on friends and friendship
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"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on friends and friendship   

"Ones oldest friend is the best."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on friends and friendship   

"What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on friends and friendship   

"If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words."

Powell, John Enoch on friends and friendship   

"Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate."

Pratt, David on friends and friendship
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"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."

Prentice, George D. on friends and friendship   

"The time to make friends is before you need them."

Proverb on friends and friendship
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"Short judgments make long friends."

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"It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them."

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"A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do."

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"Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him."

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"Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound."

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