Mark Twain Friendship Quotations

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

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

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

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

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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

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

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.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

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.