Friendship Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

— Benjamin Franklin

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

— Benjamin Franklin

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

— Benjamin Franklin

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

— Benjamin Franklin

There are 3 faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

— Benjamin Franklin

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

— Benjamin Franklin

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

— Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

— Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

— Benjamin Franklin

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

— Benjamin Franklin

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

— Benjamin Franklin

Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to…

— Benjamin Franklin

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all…

— Benjamin Franklin

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to…

— Benjamin Franklin

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and…

— Benjamin Franklin

Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis…

— Benjamin Franklin

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not…

— Benjamin Franklin

My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .…

— Benjamin Franklin

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we…

— Benjamin Franklin

“We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the…

— Benjamin Franklin

If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.

— Benjamin Franklin

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

— Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

— Benjamin Franklin

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

— Benjamin Franklin

Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

— Benjamin Franklin

The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ether Barrymore

— Benjamin Franklin