Quotes
Quotes about Friends
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry.
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
