Quotes about friends and friendship

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Proverb, Arabian on friends and friendship   

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"A friend is known when needed."

Proverb, Arabian on friends and friendship   

"Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy."

Proverb, Arabian on friends and friendship
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"With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough."

Proverb, Chinese on friends and friendship
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"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends."

Proverb, Chinese on friends and friendship
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"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends."

Proverb, Czech. on friends and friendship   

"No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor."

Proverb, Danish on friends and friendship   

"Your friendship is your needs answered."

Proverb, Danish on friends and friendship
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"The road to a friend's house is never long."

Proverb, Danish on friends and friendship
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"You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years."

Proverb, English on friends and friendship   

"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight."

Proverb, English on friends and friendship   

"Who ceases to be a friend never was one."

Proverb, Greek on friends and friendship
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"These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller."

Proverb, Indian on friends and friendship   

"For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required."

Proverb, Indian on friends and friendship
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"The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one."

Proverb, Jewish on friends and friendship   

"A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing."

Proverb, Jewish on friends and friendship   

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."

Proverb, Nigerian on friends and friendship   

"To keep a new friend, never break with the old."

Proverb, Russian on friends and friendship   

"Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are."

Proverb, Russian on friends and friendship
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"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."

Proverb, Sicilian on friends and friendship
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"An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship."

Proverb, Spanish on friends and friendship   

"Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless."

Proverb, Turkish on friends and friendship   

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

Pythagoras on friends and friendship
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"It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?"

Python, Monty on friends and friendship
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"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."

Quarles, Francis on friends and friendship   

"True friendship is never serene."

Rabutin-Chantal, Marie De on friends and friendship   

"Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job."

Randall, Erwin T. on friends and friendship   

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

Randolf, G. on friends and friendship
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"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."

Richter, Jean Paul on friends and friendship   

"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."

Richter, Jean Paul on friends and friendship
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"I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars."

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past."

Riera, Dorothy on friends and friendship
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"Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet."

Rogers, Will on friends and friendship   

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on friends and friendship
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"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend."

Rothschild, William E. on friends and friendship   

"Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things."

Ruskin, John on friends and friendship   

"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."

Sallust on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

Santayana, George on friends and friendship
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"Good friends are good for your health."

Sarason, Irwin on friends and friendship   

"One who looks for a friend without faults will have none."

Saying, Hasidic on friends and friendship