FRIENDS QUOTES III

quotations about friends

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Friends are true twins in soul.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

letter to Reverdy Johnson, Jul. 26, 1862


Friends have all things in common.

PLATO

Phaedrus


It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


Friendship either finds or makes equals.

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


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


A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes


Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


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


A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy: Book III


A man with a pleasant disposition finds friends everywhere, and makes friends where people of a contrary nature see only enemies.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796


A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

MAYA ANGELOU

Letter to My Daughter


Anyone may have friends in prosperity, but to have them in adversity, is an object of superior management.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Notebooks


One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams