Theme
Friendship
Connection, loyalty, and the company we keep.
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Verified quotes about friendship
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“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity”
“A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair”
“A true friend is, as it were, a second self”
“any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none”
“No man is an island entire of itself”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
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Don’t get caught out
Commonly shared about friendship — but misattributed
Popular friendship lines that get pinned on the wrong name. If you use one, credit it correctly.
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company”
ReallyA French Jesuit “Rules of Civility” maxim (trans. Francis Hawkins) · not George Washington
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success”
ReallyEdward Everett Hale
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you”
ReallyA. A. Milne (falsely credited) · not A. A. Milne
“If you want a friend, get a dog”
ReallyStanley Weiser and Oliver Stone
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me”
ReallyHarris Weinstock · not Henry Ford
“Of all the means to ensure happiness, friendship is the most important”
ReallyEpicurus
“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met”
ReallyEdgar A. Guest
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship”
ReallyThomas Aquinas
“United we stand, divided we fall”
ReallyAesop
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
ReallyRichard Lingard (earliest documented source) · not Plato