quotations about friends
Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Islands in the Stream
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
HOMER
The Odyssey
When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.
AESOP
"The Sick Kite", Aesop's Fables
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
Friends are true twins in soul.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
ZIG ZIGLAR
attributed, The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir
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
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
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet
Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.
WILLIAM JAMES
attributed, The Thought and Character of William James
Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale;
Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart;
Let not the spirit of its growth depart:
It is a power to brave the strongest gale.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN
"Friendship"
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables
My friends' happiness forms part of my own.
PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY
Happiness: Personhood