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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BCIf thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. — Epictetus · 135Friends share all things. — PythagorasHave no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber. — Confucius · 221 BCA friend is, as it were, a second self. — Cicero · 44 BCIf all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal · 1662All 9 quotes →
Drama4 quotes
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946Bubba was my best good friend and even I know that ain’t something you can find just around the corner. — Forrest Gump · 1994You can be my wingman anytime. — Ice · 1986You know, Jerry, I'm going to tell you something. Friendship is a two-way street. Do you know that? And you couldn't care less about me. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982
Drama (film)4 quotes
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946Bubba was my best good friend and even I know that ain’t something you can find just around the corner. — Forrest Gump · 1994You can be my wingman anytime. — Ice · 1986You know, Jerry, I'm going to tell you something. Friendship is a two-way street. Do you know that? And you couldn't care less about me. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. — Proverbs 18:24 · 686 BCWhatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. — Proverbs 27:17 · 686 BCGreater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Jesus · 90
Biography3 quotes
One soul dwelling in two bodies. — AristotleIf a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson · 1784We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. — Samuel Johnson · 1777
Comedy3 quotes
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name, best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes. — Ron Swanson · 2011And I love you. Because I've learned that Platonic love can exist between two grown men. — Russell · 1992
Comedic play2 quotes
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1892The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. — Moliere · 1666
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989And I love you. Because I've learned that Platonic love can exist between two grown men. — Russell · 1992
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? — The Writer · 1986I always thought we'd be friends forever. — Kirby Keger · 1985
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? — The Writer · 1986I always thought we'd be friends forever. — Kirby Keger · 1985
One soul dwelling in two bodies. — AristotleTo like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. — Catiline · 50 BC
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. — Catiline · 50 BCAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891
Action1 quote
You can be my wingman anytime. — Ice · 1986
You can be my wingman anytime. — Ice · 1986
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. — Henry Adams · 1907
You have been my friend... That in itself is a tremendous thing. — E.B. White · 1952
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Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946
I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name, best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes. — Ron Swanson · 2011
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. — William Shakespeare · 1600
You know, Jerry, I'm going to tell you something. Friendship is a two-way street. Do you know that? And you couldn't care less about me. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982
You know, Jerry, I'm going to tell you something. Friendship is a two-way street. Do you know that? And you couldn't care less about me. — Rupert Pupkin · 1982
And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989
Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. — Rick Blaine · 1942
Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. — Rick Blaine · 1942
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend. — William Shakespeare · 1616