Friendship Quotes About True Friends – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

William Hazlitt

I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Edgar Watson Howe

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

Alphonse Karr

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

Matthew Arnold

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Saadi

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

Roger Wicker

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

James Cash Penney

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.

Satish Kumar

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

William Feather

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Arnold Bennett

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Richard Lugar

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Jean Racine

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

Sallust

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

Edwidge Danticat

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

James Whistler

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Sallust

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

George Ade

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Joe Murray

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Edgar Watson Howe

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Thornton Wilder

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Isaac Barrow

True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.

Brian Celio