Friendship Quotes - Page 4

Many a friendship-long loyal and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Frederick W. Faber

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Austin O'Malley

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Ethel Barrymore

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

It is great to have friends when one is young but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young friends are like everything else a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Benjamin Disraeli

When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.

Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Friends and wine should be old.

Spanish Proverb

Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine.

Bible

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best mirror is an old friend.

Anonymous

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

There is only one thing better than making a new friend and that is keeping an old one.

Elmer G. Letterman

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.

Sophocles

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Nigerian Proverb

None is so rich as to throw away a friend.

Turkish Proverb

Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

William Shakespeare

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Publilius Syrus

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

Florence H. Winterburn

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.

Sophocles

An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

A man with few friends is only half-developed there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself he cannot even discover them friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Randolph Bourne

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Scratch a lover and find a foe.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

Mary Webb

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation one glance one hurt and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures such a smile if the artful but know it is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford

Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.

Alfred North Whitehead

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.

Robert E. Frederick

To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Cicero

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

General Sir John Monash

Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Bible

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit either in business or reputation improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

William Hazlitt

Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Euripides

Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better.

Edgar Watson Howe

One enemy is too many a hundred friends too few.

Anonymous

Friends come and go enemies linger.

Anonymous

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

Margaret Culkin Banning

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.

Sir Walter Scott

Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight a home a teacher a companion.

Lorraine Anderson

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

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