Friendship Quotes About True Friends – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean de La Fontaine

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Norman Douglas

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Mary Wortley Montagu

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Bryant H. McGill

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.

Richard Parks Bland

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

Bryant H. McGill

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Mike Huckabee

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Jean de La Fontaine

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracian

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Arthur Miller

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

William Glasser

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Edgar Allan Poe

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Evelyn Waugh

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Willa Cather

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Chanakya

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

Hillary Clinton

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

Elizabeth I

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Donald Rumsfeld

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Barbara Bush

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

Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.

Klaus Schulze

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Sallust

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Johann Kaspar Lavater