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Quotes about friendship

Friends, guests and trust.

6 quotes with a known source.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Source: A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack (1736)

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Source: All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

Source: Principal Doctrines 27

Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…"

Source: The Four Loves (1960)

Good fences make good neighbors.

It is the neighbour's saying, and the poem's narrator doubts it.

Source: "Mending Wall" (1914)

Quotes about friendship that are usually credited to the wrong person.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Actually: Not found in Camus' works; it is an old camp and scouting saying.