quotations about friends
Friends are true twins in soul.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
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"
True friends are like diamonds--bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.
NICOLE RICHIE
International Business Times, June 8, 2019
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
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
When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Friends have all things in common.
PLATO
Phaedrus
New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
MAYA ANGELOU
Letter to My Daughter
It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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
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
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"
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir
Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961