Friendship Quotes About True Friends – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

William Hazlitt

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jean de la Bruyere

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mohandas Gandhi

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

William Hazlitt

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Thomas S. Monson

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Clarence Darrow

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson