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Friendship Quotes by Mark Twain

42 Friendship quotes by Mark Twain

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Loyalty and steady support are praised in the friendship quotes. They note that honest truth‑telling can surprise enemies and delight friends, and that true friends stay loyal even when money is involved. A humorous telegram about fleeing shows the playful side of these bonds.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

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How rare and wonderfull is that flash of a movement wen we relize that we have discovered a frind

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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through…

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Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe…

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to…

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized…

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with…

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically…

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The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a…

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the…

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“Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better…

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“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great…

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint…

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“Mark Twain describes how his friend Ralph Keeler introduced him at the start of a lecture: " 'I don't know anything about…

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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence;…

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“I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They…

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“People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with…

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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish…

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“If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The…

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“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never…

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“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being…

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

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If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

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“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have…

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are…

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town…

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for…

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Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old…

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“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put…

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“A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be…

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.