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“Friendship's the wine of life.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
“Friends are like money, easier made than kept.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
“A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.”
Source: The spectator
“True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.”
“Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.”
Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays
“The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.”
Source: Essays
“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other”
“A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.”
“Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.”
Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women
“I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.”
“My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes
Source: The wit & wisdom of Bob Edwards
Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition
“Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.”
Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
“There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.”
“And friend received with thumps upon the back.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.”
Source: The Shepherd's Calendar
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
“Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner
“Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.”
Source: Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars
“Friends are thieves of time.”
Source: Philosophical works