quotations about friends
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
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
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
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought