Friendship Quotes About True Friends – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Leon Uris

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

William Dean Howells

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Edwin Louis Cole

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

Neil LaBute

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Sitting Bull

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Chanakya

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

Anais Nin

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Howard Hodgkin

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Edward Everett Hale

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

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

Joseph Brodsky

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Pierre Laval

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Demosthenes

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

James Bovard

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

Thomas Malthus

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Barbara Tuchman

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Charles de Montesquieu

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Francois Fenelon

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

Karen Armstrong

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Jim Costa

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

John Donne

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Doug Larson

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

Warren Christopher

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Samuel Richardson