Friend Quotes
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeEven in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William HazlittIt’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene DietrichIn prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton CollinsMan has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
The TalmudThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph AddisonAn acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar WildeWhen the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese ProverbLet me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Sam Walter FossLove is a friendship set to music.
Joseph CampbellTrue friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar GracianDon't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell HolmesLet us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
Francis Scott FitzgeraldWhile your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
Ambrose BierceFriendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
Chavela VargasBe careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement StoneKeep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
Henry Ward BeecherHappy is he whose friends were born before him.
ProverbIf you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta