Best friend quotes (5)

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

William Shakespeare

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

Everyman's friend is everyman's fool.

Proverb

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A friend is one who takes me for what I am.

Henry David Thoreau

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Kahlil Gibran

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Homer

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Baden Powell of Gilwell, Lord

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare

A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.

Proverb

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

William Rotsler

I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend- without a song" So I keep singing a song.

Elvis Presley

Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.

Proverb

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

G. K. Chesterton

Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

Bible

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Dorothy Parker

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away - but not that of having had one.

Seneca