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Friend Quotes by Mark Twain
- When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
- A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
- But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our…
- Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
- Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
- The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace,…
- The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get…
- The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you…
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too…
- But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness;…
- When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
- The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and…
- I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend…
- Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and…
More Friend Quotes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. — Saint Augustine
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila
- Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. — Richard Bach
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon
- When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn,… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between… — Francis Bacon
- Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou