Friendship quotations

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It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

Rabbit

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Sydney Smith

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Eamon de Valera

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

Mick Taylor

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Stephen Ambrose

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Confucius

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Prosperity is full of friends.

Euripides

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

Wayne Newton

In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.

Jennifer Aniston

And I watch my friends, most of whom are in academic life because most poets have to be in academic life, there aren't so many other ways to survive.

Peter Davison

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

Ursula Andress

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

Sheryl Crow

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

Kevin Bacon

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

Josef Albers

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Thornton Wilder

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.

Ricther

My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Kurt Cobain

The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.

David Storey

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is

Phillips Brooks

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

John Ratzenberger