Dr. Friendship

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Witty Quotes By The Well Known

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1. If you make one friend everyday, at the end of the year you'll be stuck with 365 new friends.
Milton Berle

2. My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding intimacies and eventually speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges

3. Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth Bowen

4. A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
Erma Bombeck

5. It's easy to make a friend. What's harder is to make a stranger.
Unknown

6. Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
La Rochefoucauld

7. A friend in need is a friend to dodge.
Unknown

8. You only had two friends in the world, and having killed one you can't afford to irritate the other.
Tom Stoppard

9. He (Bernard Shaw) hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

10. Friends are God's apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill

11. A friend is one who dislikes the same people you dislike.
Anonymous

12. If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

13. I do not want people to be too agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austin

14. My friends, there are no friends.
Coco Chanel

15. Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Agatha Christie

16. Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
Edger Watson Howe

17. The surest way to loose a friend is to tell him something for his own good.
Sid Ascher

18. Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

19. Friendship is possible only because people do not say to your face the things they say behind your back.
Anonymous

20. To choose a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.
Diane de Poitiers

21. Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

22. Friendship increases by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom.
Benjamin Franklin

23. Sooner or later you've heard what all your best friends have to say. Then, comes the tolerance of real love.
Ned Rorem

24. Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

25. He's the kind of man who picks his friends-to pieces.
Mae West

26. A true friend laughs at your stories when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles when they're not so bad.
Unknown

27. To find a friend one must close one eye: to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas

28. A friend never says "I told you so" - even when she did.
Wendy Jean Smith

29. Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job.
H.M.E.

30. Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
Mary Tyler Moore

31. Don't tell your friends their faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith

32. When I was forty, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.
Brooke Astor

33. It's hard when you don't like someone your friend marries...It means that even a simple flat inquiry like "How's Helen?" is taken amiss, since your friend always thinks that what you hope he's going to say is "Dead."
Nora Ephron, from Heartburn

34. Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.
Mimi Pond

35. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

36. After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend.
Page Smith

37. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. 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 are right.
Mark Twain

39. A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle

40. Every man should have fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Brooks Adams

41. Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom one is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin

42. It is the first law of friendship that has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
Voltaire

43. Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
Clarence Day

44. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbors.
G.K. Chesterson

45. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones

46. It's easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake

47. We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter...It's the way friends make love to one another.
Annie Gottlieb

48. Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make...your life bearable.
Francine Du Plessix Gray

49. Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
Sheila Ballantyne

50. You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do a favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor for almost everyone.
Mark Caine

51. I've worn out a couple of generations of friends, but I've still got so many.
Eubie Blake

52. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin

53. A person without friends might as well be dead.
Billie Holiday

54. The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.
Adrienne Rich

55. That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt

56. I am grateful when a friend slaps me on the back and tells me I'm a fine fellow, but I do a little resent it when with his other hand he picks my pocket.
W. Somerset Maugham

57. If you're your own best friend you need to get out more.
Dr. Friendship