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Short Friendship Quotes

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Deep Friendship Quotes

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Funny Friendship Quotes

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Henry Ward Beecher

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Nick Clooney

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Karl Lagerfeld

More Friendship Quotes

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Thomas Jefferson

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Jean de la Bruyere

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

W. Somerset Maugham

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Santayana

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

Francois Rabelais

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

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