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Quotes About Friendship

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Do good to your friends to keep them,to your enemies to win them.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same road I should probably be led to the grave, I stopped short, turned about, and walked back again; which having done these four years, you may now call me sixty-six. Advise those old friends of ours to follow my example; keep up your spirits, and that will keep up your bodies.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He who drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Our supper was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter, and half a pint of ale between us; but the entertainment was in her conversation.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer and made money, but died young. He and I had made a serious agreement, that the one who happened first to die should, if possible, make a friendly visit to the other, and acquaint him how he found things in that separate state. But he never fulfilled his promise.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Article III The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved, love, and be lovable
~ Benjamin Franklin
Lend money to an enemy and you will gain him, to a friend and you will lose him.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There are three faithful friends – An old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Let's go and see everybody" said Pooh. Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could only think of something. Pooh could. "We'll go because it's Thursday" he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet
~ Benjamin Hoff