quotations about friends
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
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The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
ZIG ZIGLAR
attributed, The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success
A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1756
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Notebooks
Anyone may have friends in prosperity, but to have them in adversity, is an object of superior management.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables
You can go through life and make new friends every year--every month practically--but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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
New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
New friends are like silver, but old friends are like gold.
FLORENCE F. BRADLEY
"10 things I learned from my father", Ocala, June 16, 2019
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
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