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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Mason Cooley

Writer · American

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

Stephen Ambrose

Historian · American · 1936 – 2002

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

George Santayana

Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

Doug Larson

Cartoonist · American

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Henry A. Kissinger

Statesman · b. 1923

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Lord Byron

Poet · British · 1788 – 1824

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Franz Schubert

Composer · Austrian · 1797 – 1828

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Writer · American · 1809 – 1894

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Moshe Dayan

Soldier · Israeli · 1915 – 1981

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Benjamin Franklin

Politician · American · 1706 – 1790

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President · American · 1890 – 1969

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

W. H. Auden

Poet · English · 1907 – 1973

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

Philosopher · Greek

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Publilius Syrus

Writer · Roman

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Dan Quayle

Vice President · American · b. 1947

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

Helen Keller

Author · American · 1880 – 1968

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

Poet · French · 1621 – 1695

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Logan P. Smith

Writer · American

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

Sydney Smith

Clergyman · English · 1771 – 1845

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

Francis Ford Coppola

Director · American · b. 1939

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Tennessee Williams

Dramatist · American · 1911 – 1983

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

Leader

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

Politician · American · 1706 – 1790

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Politician · b. 1928

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Elizabeth Bowen

Novelist · Irish · 1899 – 1973

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Euripides

Poet · Greek

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Politician · French · b. 1948

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Alexander Pope

Poet · English · 1688 – 1744

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Mathematician · Greek

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Matthew Simpson

Clergyman · American · 1811 – 1884

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

John Webster

Playwright · English

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Aesop

Author · Greek

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Harry S. Truman

President · American · 1884 – 1972

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Francis Bacon

Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Oscar Wilde

Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Harriet Tubman

Activist · American

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