quotations about friends
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796
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
It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1756
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Anyone may have friends in prosperity, but to have them in adversity, is an object of superior management.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
Trivia
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"
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
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
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961