Theme
Friendship
Connection, loyalty, and the company we keep.
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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”
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success”
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth”
“For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods”
“I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”
“I never met a man I didn't like”
“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer, because it was he, because it was I”
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply”
“No man is an island entire of itself”
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them”
“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed”
“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”
“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm themselves at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke coming from the chimney”
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel”
“We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy”
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you”
“You've made this day a special day, by just your being you”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
“At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters”
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive”
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light”
“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal”
“Keep Away from People Who Try to Belittle Your Ambitions”
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
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Commonly shared about friendship — but misattributed
Popular friendship lines that get pinned on the wrong name. If you use one, credit it correctly.
“I Fear the Day That Technology Will Surpass Our Human Interaction”
ReallyNo verified speaker · not Albert Einstein
“Most Conversations Are Simply Monologues Delivered in the Presence of a Witness”
ReallyMargaret Millar · not Mark Twain
“Just Walk Beside Me and Be My Friend”
ReallyAnonymous · not Albert Camus
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
ReallyUnknown · not Oscar Wilde
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”
ReallyAnonymous · not Oscar Wilde
“True friends stab you in the front”
ReallyUnknown · not Oscar Wilde
“Here are Two Tickets for the Opening of My Play. Bring a Friend—If You Have One”
ReallyUnknown · not George Bernard Shaw
“Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well”
ReallyWilliam Shakespeare
“When 'I' is replaced with 'we,' illness becomes wellness”
ReallyCharles Roppel · not Malcolm X
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read”
ReallyUnknown (a 1940s newspaper joke) · not Groucho Marx
“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood”
ReallyDouglas McGrath · not Charles Dickens
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true”
ReallyCharles Dickens
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect, and greet each other”
ReallyRainer Maria Rilke · but not in these words
“Love is a friendship set to music”
ReallyUnknown · not Joseph Campbell
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality”
ReallyYoko Ono · not John Lennon
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears”
ReallyDixie Willson (the leading candidate) · not John Lennon
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”
ReallyMario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola · not Sun Tzu
“Will you have sugar and cream in your nose?”
ReallyMary Roberts Rinehart · not J. P. Morgan