FRIENDS QUOTES III

quotations about friends


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I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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letter to Reverdy Johnson, Jul. 26, 1862


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However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


When an intimate friend turns from us, we often find him the most inveterate enemy.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to Samuel Bowles


Friends are true twins in soul.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


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 young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

MAYA ANGELOU

Letter to My Daughter


True friends are like diamonds--bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.

NICOLE RICHIE

International Business Times, June 8, 2019


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


My friends' happiness forms part of my own.

PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY

Happiness: Personhood


Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


He makes no friends who never made a foe.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir


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


Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams


A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes


A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1756


A man with a pleasant disposition finds friends everywhere, and makes friends where people of a contrary nature see only enemies.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


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