The repository contains 49 quotes in the category “Friendship.”
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

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

President George Washington
1732 — 1799

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

My eighty-percent friend is not my twenty-percent enemy.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

Always to suppose one’s friends may be right till one finds them wrong, rather than to suppose them wrong till one finds them right.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

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

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie
1888 — 1955

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau
1817 — 1862

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

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 — 1968

Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Ambrose Bierce
1842 — 1914?

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus
1913 — 1960

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 — 1894

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Aristotle
384 — 322 B.C.

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