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Quotes including the word “friend”.

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Aeschylus

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Aeschylus

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Aristophanes

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristophanes

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Jane Austen

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

Balzac

Reading brings us unknown friends.

Albert Camus

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.

Cicero

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Confucius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Confucius

I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.

Darwin

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Diogenes

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Alexandre Dumas

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gracian

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Hawthorne

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Hermann Hesse

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

Hermann Hesse

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

Homer

The difficulty is not to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Homer

While sane, nothing shall I compare with a friend.

Isokratis

We try gold in fire, we know our friends in mishaps.

Isokratis

Do not rush to make friends, but when you are, try to stay.

William James

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Kierkegaard

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

L. Martin King,

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

Wanda Landowska

Friendship is more important than truth.

Primo Levi

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

Igor Luchenok

Voithó tous anthrópous ópote écho tin efkairía. Óchi móno fílous, allá kai echthroús. 85 / 5.000 Αποτελέσματα μετάφρασης I help people whenever I have the chance. Not only friends but also enemies.

Luther

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Herbert Marcuse

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

Herman Melville

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Edna Milley

“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Tin Moe

The cigar has burned down; The sun is brown. Send me home, my friends!

Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Jim Morrison

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Nazrul

Let's forget today who is friend or foe, and hold each other in caring embrace.

Pittacus

Forbear to speak evil not only of your friends, but also of your enemies

Plutarch

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Alexander Pope,

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Pythagoras

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

Renoir

“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”

Rochefoucauld

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

Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Schubert

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

Frank Sinatra

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Tennyson

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Henry Thoreau

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

Mark Twain

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Oscar Wilde

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Wollstonecraft

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

B. W. Yeats

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

B. W. Yeats

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.