Benjamin Franklin Friendship Quotations

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.