Friends Quotes - Page 10

• Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Real Friends, My Best Friend

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.638

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• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

  Aristotle

  Love, Friendship, Family

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• We have been friends together
  In sunshine and in shade.

  Caroline Norton

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1853). “The Undying One: And Other Poems”, p.209

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• He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

  Omar Khayyam

  Friendship, Enemy, Few Friends

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

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• How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.

  Shel Silverstein

  Friendship, Life Lesson, Real Friends

  Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”

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• True friends stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

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• There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Dog, Money

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.

  Francis Quarles

  Thinking, Self, Long

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• Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.

  William Wordsworth

  Humble, Scorn

  William Wordsworth (1835). “Yarrow Revisited,: And Other Poems”, p.85

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• No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Faithful, Prudent

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• It is good to have friends at court.

  Charles Lamb

  Court

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.297

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• A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

  George Jean Nathan

  Money, Reading, Equality

  George Jean Nathan (1943). “Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children”

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• How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

  Shel Silverstein

  Love, Friendship, Inspiring

  Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”

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• Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

  Solomon

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fall

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Beautiful, Real Friends

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sake, Dare, Request

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.186

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• Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Judging, Quality

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Inspiring, Memories

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.33, American Foundation for the Blind

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• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Friendship, Courage

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (1997)

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• My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Joy, Sacred

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, True Friend, Fear

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

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• That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

  Kristin Hannah

  Best Friend, Heart, Bff

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.206, Macmillan

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