Friends Quotes IV

FRIENDS QUOTES IV

quotations about friends

My friends' happiness forms part of my own.

PEDRO ALEXIS TABENSKY

Happiness: Personhood

There are all kinds of courage. 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

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Trivia

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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale;
Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart;
Let not the spirit of its growth depart:
It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN

"Friendship"

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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.

AESOP

"The Sick Kite", Aesop's Fables

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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Islands in the Stream

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Anyone may have friends in prosperity, but to have them in adversity, is an object of superior management.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

The Prophet

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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

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Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus

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Friends made fast seldom remain fast.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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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"

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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

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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

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A man with a pleasant disposition finds friends everywhere, and makes friends where people of a contrary nature see only enemies.