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| A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound. | 1 |
| A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friendship. Latin. | 2 |
| A generous friendship no cold medium knows. Homer. | 3 |
| A hedge between keeps friendship green. German. | 4 |
| A lost friendship is an enmity won. German. | 5 |
A needle’s eye is wide enough for two friends;
The whole world is too narrow for two foes. Persian. | 6 |
| Disparity of fortune is the bane of friendship. Petrarch. | 7 |
| Do not allow the grass to grow on the road of friendship. Madame Geoffrin. | 8 |
| Concealed grudges are dangerous in friendship. | 9 |
| Female friendships are of rapid growth. Benjamin Disraeli. | 10 |
| Friendship canna stand aye on ae side. | 11 |
| Friendship and company are a bad excuse for ill actions. | 12 |
| Friendship and importunate begging feed at the same dish. | 13 |
| Friendship always benefits, love sometimes injures. Seneca. | 14 |
| Friendship consists not in saying “What’s the best news?” | 15 |
| Friendship increases in visiting friends but not in visiting them seldom. | 16 |
| Friendship is a plant which one must often water. German. | 17 |
| Friendship is a sheltering tree. Coleridge. | 18 |
| Friendship is love with understanding. German. | 19 |
| Friendship is not to be bought at a fair. | 20 |
| Friendship is stronger than kindred. Publius Syrus. | 21 |
| Friendship is the balm as well as the seasoning of life. Richardson. | 22 |
| Friendship is the most sacred of all moral bonds. | 23 |
| Friendship is the perfection of love. | 24 |
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul,
Sweet’n’r of life, and solder of society! Blair. | 25 |
| Friendship rises but with fortune and sets when men go downward. Aaron Hill. | 26 |
| Friendship should be unpicked not rent. Italian. | 27 |
| Friendship that flames goes out in a flash. | 28 |
| Friendship, the older it grows the stronger it is. | 29 |
| Friendships are cheap when they can be bought by dropping the hat. Italian. | 30 |
| Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. | 31 |
| In royal breasts both enmity and friendship should always give way to policy. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 32 |
| In the division of inheritance friendship standeth still. Dutch. | 33 |
Judge before friendship then confide ’till death,
Well for thy friend, but nobler far for thee. Young. | 34 |
| Life has no pleasure nobler than that of friendship. Dr. Johnson. | 35 |
| Little presents maintain friendship. French. | 36 |
| No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot. | 37 |
| Nothing can be sweeter than friendship. Petrarch. | 38 |
| One should sacrifice everything to friendship except honor and justice. French. | 39 |
| Patched up friendship seldom becomes whole again. German. | 40 |
| Pylades and Orestes died long ago and left no successors. (These were ancient Greeks celebrated for their friendship for each other.) | 41 |
| Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved. Italian, Danish. | 42 |
| Sudden friendship, sure repentance. | 43 |
| Suffering for a friend doubleth friendship. | 44 |
| The friendship of a great man is a lion at the next door. | 45 |
| The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush soon gone. French. | 46 |
| The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions. Italian. | 47 |
| The friendships of the world are wind. Benjamin Disraeli. | 48 |
| There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. | 49 |
| There is scarcity of friendship but none of friends. | 50 |
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| To live in friendship is to have the same desires and the same aversions. Sallust. | 51 |
| To preserve friendship one must build walls. Italian. | 52 |
| True friendship is imperishable. Pythagoras. | 53 |
What is friendship but a name, a charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth or fame, and leaves the wretch to weep? Goldsmith. | 54 |
| When friendship goes with love it must play second fiddle. German. | 55 |
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