3,061 Quotes About Friends

  • Author Friedrich Schiller
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    Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

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  • Author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

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  • Author Merle Shain
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    The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.

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  • Author Patrick Stewart
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    William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

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  • Author Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

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