quotations about friends
Friends have all things in common.
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Phaedrus
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy: Book III
Friends are true twins in soul.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
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
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
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
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
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
True friends are like diamonds--bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.
NICOLE RICHIE
International Business Times, June 8, 2019
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir
My friends' happiness forms part of my own.
PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY
Happiness: Personhood
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
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
EMILY DICKINSON
letter to Samuel Bowles
Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Islands in the Stream
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 friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
MAYA ANGELOU
Letter to My Daughter
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"
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus