Quotes about Friends

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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."
-- Aristotle

"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
-- Aristotle

"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."
-- Chilo

"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"There is no friend as loyal as a book"
-- Ernest Hemingway

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."
-- Euripides

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings

"A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends."
-- Frank Crane

"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
-- George Jean Nathan

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Never deceive a friend."
-- Hipparchus

"Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest."
-- Joe E. Lewis

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
-- John Leonard

"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."
-- Katherine Hathaway

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
-- Len Wein

"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
-- Leon Uris

"He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front."
-- Leonard Louis Levinson

"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends."
-- Lord Chesterfield

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you."
-- Marbury

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
-- Marcus T. Cicero

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
-- Oscar Wilde

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."
-- Robert E. Lee

"A friend is a present you give to yourself."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."
-- Seneca

"Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies."
-- Somers White

"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."
-- St. Jerome

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
-- Tehyi Hsieh

"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."
-- Thomas Fuller

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
-- Thomas Jones

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."
-- William Hazlitt

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
-- Woodrow T. Wilson