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Friendship |
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Quotations
 | A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 26 likes |
 | A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 21 likes |
 | True friends stab you in the front. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 20 likes |
 | I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 13 likes |
 | Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 12 likes |
 | Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher (this version was used in “Godfather;” the original starts with “The Prince”.) 12 likes |
 | Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 11 likes |
 | True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 9 likes |
 | Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 7 likes |
 | The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 7 likes |
 | There are no friends; only moments of friendship. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 7 likes |
 | He is my friend who speaks well of me behind my back. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 6 likes |
| Anyone who has experienced a great love, does not care about friendship. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 6 likes |
 | To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. 6 likes |
| Friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 6 likes |
 | Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 6 likes |
 | It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 5 likes |
| Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes |
 | Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 5 likes |
 | Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 5 likes |
 | Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 5 likes |
 | What greater wound is there than a false friend? — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet 5 likes |
 | There is this friend of mine whose name I don’t know, and I ’ve known him for too long to ask him. — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 4 likes |
 | So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 4 likes |
| A friend in need is a friend indeed! — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 4 likes |
 | The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 4 likes |
| Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 4 likes |
| A Friend to all, is a Friend to none. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Friendship is Love without wings. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 3 likes |
 | Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
 | Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. — Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet 3 likes |
 | It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 3 likes |
| We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
| The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
| The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
| True friendship is like sound health: the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
| There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes |
| Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
| It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 2 likes |
 | Men can have friends, statesmen cannot. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 2 likes |
 | Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
 | A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 2 likes |
 | There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 2 likes |
 | There is much more love in friendship than friendship in love. — Paul Lefevre Geraldy, 1885-1983, French writer 2 likes |
 | It is not wise to be loyal to a friend who is not loyal to himself. — Louis Scutenaire, 1905-1987, Belgian surrealist & anarchist 2 likes |
 | It is easy enough to find a mistress, and easy to keep a friend; what is difficult is to find a friend and keep a mistress. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 2 likes |
 | One has to have friends, even in hell. — Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616, Spanish writer 1 likes |
 | Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend. — Molière, 1622-1673, French playwright 1 likes |
 | Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 1 likes |
 | The main difference between love and friendship is that you can’t have friendship without reciprocation. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 1 likes |
 | A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 1 likes |
 | Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. |
 | Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. |
 | Animals are such agreeable friends ―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. |
 | Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. |
 | A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed. |
 | Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the deepest hatreds. |
 | Friendship is a plant that must resist droughts. |
| In every friend, there is half of a traitor. |
 | There are very few honest friends—the demand is not particularly great. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. |
 | The police and the Jesuits have the virtue of never abandoning their enemies or their friends. |
| Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. |
| Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. |
 | We often choose a friend as we do a mistress –for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. |
| True friendship is self-love at second-hand. |
| He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. |
 | No man is useless while he has a friend. |
| A friend is a gift you give yourself. |
| We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. |
 | Some take for friendship what is charity |
 | Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends. |
| Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. |
 | I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. |
 | The only friend is the one we could be with like a woman. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you. |
| 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. |
 | The best mirror is an old friend. |
 | I ended my friendship with two people. With one because he never told me about himself. And with the other, because he never spoke to me about myself. |
 | It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. |
 | Make no friendship with an elephant keeper if you have no room for an elephant. |
 | Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. |
 | A friend is nothing but a known enemy. |
 | Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. |
 | We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. |
 | If you want to keep a friend, never test him. |
 | If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. |
Quotes in Verse
 | My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! |
Funny Quotes
 | If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 4 likes |
| A good friend is worth pursuing but why would a good friend be running away? — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
| Friendship is one soul living in two bodies. Φιλία εστί μία ψυχή εν δυσί σώμασιν ενοικουμένη. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 27 likes |
 | Plato is my friend but the truth is my best friend. Φίλος μεν Πλάτων, φιλτάτη δε αλήθεια. — Antiphanes, 405-335 BC, Ancient comic poet 16 likes |
 | Don’t rush when attending friends’ dinners, but hasten to their misfortunes. Επί δείπνα των φίλων βραδέως πορεύου, επί δε τας ατυχίας ταχέως. — Chilon of Sparta, 6th cent. BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 11 likes |
 | Time tests friends, like fire tests gold. Κρίνει φίλους ο καιρός, ως χρυσόν το πυρ. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 7 likes |
 | A friend does not abandon his friend in difficulties and in danger. Ο φίλος τον φίλον εν πόνοις και κινδύνοις ου λείπει. 6 likes |
 | Accord of mind creates friendship. Ομοφροσύνη φιλίην ποιεί. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | A friend and a horse are tested in a difficult situation. Φίλος και ίππος εν ανάγκη δοκιμάζονται. — Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist 6 likes |
| Many who seem to be friends are not, whilst some, who do not seem so, are. Πολλοί δοκέοντες είναι φίλοι ουκ εισί, και ου δοκέοντες εισίν. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
 | Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them. Οι μεν άλλοι κύνες τους εχθρούς δάκνουσι, εγώ δε τους φίλους ίνα σώσω. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 5 likes |
| If we have money, we shall have friends. Εάν δ’ έχωμεν χρήμαθ’, έξομεν φίλους — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 4 likes |
 | Because they were friends in word, not in deed. Λόγω γαρ ήσαν ουκ έργω φίλοι. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Alcestis 4 likes |
| A poor man is abandoned by all his friends. Πένητα φεύγει πας τις εκποδών φίλος. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Medea 4 likes |
 | Do not become a friend with anybody, before you check how he treats his old friends. Μηδένα φίλον ποιού, πριν αν εξετάσης πώς κέχρηται τοις προτέροις φίλοις. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 4 likes |
| No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend. Ζην ουκ άξιος, ότω μηδείς εστι χρηστός φίλος. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
| Become a friend slowly, and when you become, try to stay a friend. Βραδέως μεν φίλος γίγνου, γενόμενος δε, πειρώ διαμένειν. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 3 likes |
| A friend knows his friend in danger. Ο φίλος τον φίλον εν κινδύνοις γιγνώσκει. 3 likes |
| It is easy to find a friend in prosperity, but when you are unhappy nothing is harder. Εν ευτυχίη φίλον ευρείν εύπορον, εν δε δυστυχίη πάντων απορώτατον. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 2 likes |
| When your god provides well, who needs friends? Όταν δ’ ο δαίμων ευ διδώ, τι δει φίλων; — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Orestes 2 likes |
 | It is better to have one worthy friend than many worthless ones. Κρείττον ένα φίλον έχειν πολλού άξιον, ή πολλούς μηδενός αξίους. |
Proverbs
 | A man is known by his friends. 5 likes |
 | When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. 4 likes |
 | A friend in need is a friend indeed. 4 likes |
 | A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. 3 likes |
 | Cramped but with friends. À l'étroit mais entre amis. 3 likes |
 | A friend who became an enemy was never a friend. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. — from the film Casablanca (1942) 5 likes |
