quotations about friends
True friends are like diamonds--bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.
NICOLE RICHIE
International Business Times, June 8, 2019
When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1756
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Friends have all things in common.
PLATO
Phaedrus
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"
Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy: Book III
New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
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"
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
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
Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Islands in the Stream
It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796
It is the duty of every individual, to be a friend to mankind, as it is his interest, that men should be friendly to him.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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