FRIENDS QUOTES III

quotations about friends

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

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to Samuel Bowles


Friends have all things in common.

PLATO

Phaedrus


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

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

letter to Reverdy Johnson, Jul. 26, 1862


Friends are true twins in soul.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


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


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


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


Friendship either finds or makes equals.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.

HOMER

The Odyssey


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


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


He makes no friends who never made a foe.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir


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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


My friends' happiness forms part of my own.

PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY

Happiness: Personhood


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


New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night