quotations about friends
A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1756
Friends have all things in common.
PLATO
Phaedrus
The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
CHARLES LAMB
letter to William Wordsworth, Mar. 20, 1822
When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy: Book III
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.
MILAN KUNDERA
Identity
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
MAYA ANGELOU
Letter to My Daughter
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Tell me, why are the old friends kind,
And ever the tenderest, too?
Youth has no art, but an open mind,
And its love is sincere and true.
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"Tell Me"
Who hath one friend, of straight and loyal mind,
But one, of all the million swarms of men,
Is strong, beyond the energy of ten,
Is rich, beyond the level of mankind.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN
"One Friend"
New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
You cannot expect that a friend should be like the atmosphere, which confers all manner of benefits upon you, and without which indeed it would be impossible to live, but at the same time is never in your way.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
It is the duty of every individual, to be a friend to mankind, as it is his interest, that men should be friendly to him.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections