Friendship: Friendship Quotes

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"Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"Love and friendship exclude each other"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

"Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

Jesse Owens

"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant"

Washington Irving, Writer

Washington Irving

"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

Baltasar Gracian

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected"

Charles Lamb, Critic

Charles Lamb

"May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers"

Themistocles, Soldier

Themistocles

"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king, but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

Shirley MacLaine

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer"

E. B. White, Writer

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends"

J. K. Rowling, Author

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

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

Wilson Mizner

"The best way to keep a friend is to be one"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

Jeff Bezos

"Even the strongest man needs friends"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

Arthur Ashe

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Love demands infinitely less than friendship"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects"

John Webster, Playwright

John Webster

"What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself"

Frank Crane, Clergyman

"A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends"

Frank Crane, Clergyman

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people"

Victor Borge, Musician

"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman, by the conventions of society, are born with different interests and different points of view"

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"I just want you to know that you're very special... and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now"

Simon Pegg, Comedian

"Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends"

Jacques Delille, Poet

"Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies"

River Phoenix, Actor

River Phoenix

"One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

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