Friends Quotes II

FRIENDS QUOTES II

quotations about friends

I'm so happy 'cause today
I found my friends.
They're in my head.

KURT COBAIN

Lithium

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If he draw you aside from your proper end,
No enemy like a bosom friend.

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

"Blackberries"

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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.

ANDRé MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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'Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

STEPHEN KING

The Last Gunslinger

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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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Friends have all things in common.

PLATO

Phaedrus

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A shady friend for torrid days
Is easier to find
Than one of higher temperature
For frigid hour of mind.

EMILY DICKINSON

"A shady friend for torrid days"

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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Friendship: A Book of Quotations

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He brings thee joy, thy foes dismays,
Thy secrets hides, proclaims thy praise,
With timely gifts relieves thy need,
Thus may'st thou know the "friend indeed."

BHARTRHARI

"The Path of Altruism"

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Tags: Bhartrhari

Equals make the best friends.

AESOP

"The Two Pots", Aesop's Fables

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People are known by the company they keep, and it is always wise to select the best, for if the lower is chosen, it is impossible to rise; but if the best is not agreeable, it is easy to come down. Of course we must live worthy of the best associates, otherwise we will be forced down, and our humiliation will be greater than if we had never aspired to associate with the best people.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness

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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary

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True friends are like diamonds--bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.

NICOLE RICHIE

International Business Times, June 8, 2019

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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

CHARLES LAMB

letter to William Wordsworth, Mar. 20, 1822

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A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1756

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I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

letter to Reverdy Johnson, Jul. 26, 1862

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It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.