FRIENDS QUOTES

quotations about friends

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

SARAH DESSEN

Someone Like You


However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

JANE AUSTEN

Northanger Abbey


The best time to make friends is before you need them.

ETHEL BARRYMORE

Look Magazine, 1967


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

Atoms of Thought


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

ANAIS NIN

diary entry, March 1937


Have no friends not equal to yourself.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World


As a wolf resembles a dog, so both a flatterer and an adulterer and a parasite resemble a friend. Take care then that instead of watch dogs you do not without knowing it let in mischievous wolves.

EPICTETUS

Fragments


It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783


The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

attributed, Day's Collacon


When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


If your heart is filled with human sympathy you are sure to have friends.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


A true friend, with an annual oiling, will run a lifetime, like a good watch.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

ALI IBN-ABI-TALIB

A Hundred Sayings


While friends we were, the hot debates
That rose 'twixt you and me!
Now we are mere associates,
And never disagree.

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

"Blackberries"


If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


A friend will help you up if someone knocks you down. A best friend says "Stay down. I got this."

ANONYMOUS


Friends are most easily acquired in youth, but they are likewise most easily lost.

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

Tales


He who has wealth has friends.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya