FRIENDS QUOTES IV

quotations about friends

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

HOMER

The Odyssey


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


Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy: Book III


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 man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


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

AESOP

"The Sick Kite", Aesop's Fables


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

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams


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


To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.

MILAN KUNDERA

Identity


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


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


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

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited


He makes no friends who never made a foe.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir


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

LOUIS ARAGON

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


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

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754


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


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


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"


My friends' happiness forms part of my own.

PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY

Happiness: Personhood