FRIEND QUOTES

• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
  ~ Homer ~
• The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
  ~ John Henry Newman ~
• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
  ~ Homer ~
• The best mirror is an old friend.
  ~ George Herbert ~
• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
  ~ Charlotte Brontë ~
• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
  ~ Edgar Allan Poe ~
• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
  ~ Henry Van Dyke ~
• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• My friends are my estate.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
  ~ Edgar Allan Poe ~
• Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
  ~ Charles Kingsley ~
• We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.
  ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
• If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• The provocation of a friend shouldn't be the call for your vacation.
  ~ Precious Moses ~
• Trials and temptations are supposed to be your friends, friends you expect everyday and friends you are greater than.
  ~ Delumozie Sandra Uche ~
• Friends can be the biggest scam in your life be careful with them.
  ~ Ann Wanjiku ~
• Do you owe anyone anything? Your friend, your coworker, your boss, your family, or even God. No, you don't. Own your life.
  ~ Sage Wilson ~
• You squat with a friend and eat You cry with a friend in pain You push an enemy to death And you curse a friend, When the blood ends
  ~ Delia Mears ~
• Who is your best friend or worst enemy if not your heart? Guide it jealously.
  ~ Sirlanto Sirlanto ~
• Let's start having victory over our worst enemies by making them as our best friends.
  ~ Udita Dutta ~
• Nobody wants to make enemies, they are just the toxic friends we made.
  ~ Bernard Gabriel Okurut ~
• Friend and lover Are not the same Don't mix relations.
  ~ Niyitanga Pacifique ~
• Our friendship is fake I actually love you.
  ~ Switch Maroboto ~
• When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• When Character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. inspirational quotes
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• True friends stab you in the front.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
  ~ Charles Lamb ~
• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The only way to have a friend is to be one.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The only way to have a friend is to be one
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
  ~ Robert Southey ~
• The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.
  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
  ~ William Blake ~
• The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is
  ~ Phillips Brooks ~
• Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
  ~ Willa Cather ~
• One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
  ~ Jean De La Fontaine ~
• Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more.
  ~ Jean De La Fontaine ~
• Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend A wise enemy is worth more.
  ~ Jean De La Fontaine ~
• No man is useless while he has a friend.
  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
• No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
  ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
  ~ Jorge Luis Borges ~
• My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.
  ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
• Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
  ~ Aristophanes ~
• May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
  ~ Homer ~
• May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
  ~ Charles Kingsley ~
• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• It is easy to say how we love new friends and what we think of them but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
  ~ William Blake ~
• Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.
  ~ Charles Hanson Towne ~
• In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~