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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. -- William Blake
To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst. -- Frank Frankfort Moore
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue. -- Mencius
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. -- Charles Darwin
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. -- Confucius
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. -- Jane Austen
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. -- Ovid
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. -- Samuel Butler
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -- Saint Basil
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. -- Samuel Johnson
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. -- August Strindberg
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. -- Edgar Allan Poe
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. -- Henry Ward Beecher
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard. -- Jeff Ross
In friendship, bond not with a shallow man. -- Ueda Akinari
Friendship is much more important to a man than marriage. -- Gordon Merrick
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. -- Samuel Johnson
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship. -- Clarence H. Burns
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers. -- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man. -- Plutarch
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends. -- George Santayana
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. -- Mencius
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. -- Aristotle
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? -- Bantu Holomisa
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. -- Aelred of Rievaulx
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship. -- Tim Heidecker
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human. -- Agnes Smedley
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him. -- Charles Fourier
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. -- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ." -- C. S. Lewis
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one. -- Epicurus
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten. -- Jude Morgan
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects. -- Bill Vaughan
Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you. -- Dale Carnegie
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. -- Thomas F. Wilson
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere. -- Joe Abercrombie
Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship. -- Friedrich Schiller
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. -- James Joyce
My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with. -- C. S. Lewis

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