Mark Twain Quotes About Friendship

• The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

• One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Communication, Learning

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.176, Courier Corporation

• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspiration, Perfect

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

• Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Happiness, Marriage

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.484, eKitap Projesi

• It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Hurt, Heart

  Following the Equator ch. 45, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspirational Life, Real Friends

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Sweet, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Men, Perfect

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2014, GENERAL PRESS

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