quotations about friends
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
HOMER
The Odyssey
Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Islands in the Stream
New friends are like silver, but old friends are like gold.
FLORENCE F. BRADLEY
"10 things I learned from my father", Ocala, June 16, 2019
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir
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
Friends are true twins in soul.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.
AESOP
"The Sick Kite", Aesop's Fables
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
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
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Notebooks
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"
Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.
WILLIAM JAMES
attributed, The Thought and Character of William James
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
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"
My friends' happiness forms part of my own.
PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY
Happiness: Personhood
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables