quotations about friends
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
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The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
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"
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
Trivia
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited
New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Anyone may have friends in prosperity, but to have them in adversity, is an object of superior management.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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
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
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
You can go through life and make new friends every year--every month practically--but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
One of the most pathetic scenes is to see friendless men and women walking the lonely paths of life. Such need not be the case, for all may have friends if they but live worthy of them, and show themselves friendly.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables