FRIENDS QUOTES IV

quotations about friends


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Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754


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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