Friends Quotes - Page 13

• Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Believe, Eye

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• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Real, Solitude

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1860). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Third edition”, p.306

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• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Horse, Stars

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Funny, Failure

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• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Friendship, Philosophical, Real Friends

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Aquinas Selected Political Writings”

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• Fate chooses your relations,
  you choose your friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Friendship, Patience, Fate

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• I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Friendship, Thank You, Thankful

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Patience

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• He endearing elegance of female friendship.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Female, Elegance

  Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.50

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• The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Emo, Violent

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.87

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• The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Children, Role Models

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• The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Friendship, Birthday, Giving Up

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• When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

  Oscar Levant

  War, Boards, World

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• My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.

  Lisa Scottoline

  True Friend, Love You, Easy

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• The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

  Wilson Mizner

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Kind, Kind Words, Broken English

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1996). “Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship”, Rutledge Hill Press

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mind, Sorrow, Share

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.86, Wordsworth Editions

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• Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Friendship, Thanksgiving

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Treat your friend as a spectacle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Treats

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Heart, No Friends, Senses

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• A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

  Alan Carr

  Friendship, True Friend, Knows

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• Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Friendship, Three, Lost

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• You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

  Rumer Godden

  Family, Nuisance, Family Friends

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• It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

  George Sand

  Ignored, Neglected

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