FRIENDS QUOTES IV

quotations about friends

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

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night


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"


Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Islands in the Stream


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


We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.

AESOP

"The Sick Kite", Aesop's Fables


Friends made fast seldom remain fast.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Trivia


It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796


Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.

AESOP

Fables


Anyone may have friends in prosperity, but to have them in adversity, is an object of superior management.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


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


Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754


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

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams


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

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


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 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


I have no friends, there are only people I love.

LOUIS ARAGON

response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961


Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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