quotations about friends
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
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables
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"
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought