Life Quotes

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr. Jerome Cummings

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards

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.
Truman Capote

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.
Laurence J. Peter

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
Esther M. Clark

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P.D. James

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
Mark Twain

To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

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.
Dale Carnegie

Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice.
Anonymous

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
Euripides

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
Lord Burleigh

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette

A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Anonymous

Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis

A real friend is someone who you can sit in complete silence with and still walk away feeling like you just had the best conversation of your life.
Anon

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Bible

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen

Friendship is possible only because people do not say to your face the things they say behind your back.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.
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