quotations about friends
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
EMILY DICKINSON
letter to Samuel Bowles
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
Friends are true twins in soul.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy: Book III
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
MAYA ANGELOU
Letter to My Daughter
Friends have all things in common.
PLATO
Phaedrus
When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir
There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
One of the most pathetic scenes is to see friendless men and women walking the lonely paths of life. Such need not be the case, for all may have friends if they but live worthy of them, and show themselves friendly.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts