Quotes With Friends

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2008-03-16T04:55:00.001-07:00

An ever expanding collection of quotations, passages and phrases by famous people, politicians, activists, artists, etc. on friends, friendship, companionship, acquaintance, etc. Includes witty, inspirational, sarcastic, humourous, political, educational, etc, from A to Z. Useful for researchers, public speakers, toast masters, students and all other who loves to learn from the past.

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

2007-10-11T00:09:00.000-07:00

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
- A Hundred Sayings

Christie, Agatha

2007-10-11T00:05:00.000-07:00

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Foley, Elizabeth

2007-08-05T19:53:00.000-07:00

The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Buchanan, Edna

2007-08-05T19:50:00.000-07:00

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Brecht, Bertolt

2007-08-02T23:15:00.000-07:00

I don't trust him. We're friends.

Nature & Friendship

2007-07-26T00:46:00.000-07:00

I wish I knew who these wonderful 'Anonymous' are, they can really make us think ....

A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find, but lucky to have.

A friend is like a rainbow. They brighten your life when you've been through a storm.

A friend is like sunlight, filtering into the quite corners of ones heart, offering bright new mornings and fresh hope yet demanding nothing in return.

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rareFalse friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends not diamonds, riches, nor pearls, but the love of real true friends.

Cicero

2007-07-26T00:45:00.001-07:00

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Len Wein

2007-04-20T06:01:00.000-07:00

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Iacocca, Lee

2007-04-20T05:59:00.000-07:00

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

Belloc, Joseph Hilaire

2007-04-19T04:40:00.000-07:00

From quiet homes and first beginning,

Out to the undiscovered ends,

There's nothing worth the wear of winning,

But laughter and the love of friends.

Meltzer, Bernard

2007-04-19T04:33:00.000-07:00

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Rochefocauld, Francois de La

2007-04-17T01:01:00.001-07:00

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take least thought about acquiring.

Aristotle

2007-04-17T00:53:00.000-07:00

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Johnson, Samuel

2007-04-14T10:45:00.000-07:00

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

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

2007-04-14T10:42:00.000-07:00

So long as we are loved by others I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2007-04-13T19:34:00.000-07:00

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

The ornaments of our house are the friends that frequent it.

Wilde, Oscar

2007-04-13T19:31:00.000-07:00

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2007-04-11T21:46:00.000-07:00

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.

There is no friend like an old friend,

Who has shared our morning days,

No greeting like his welcome,

No homage like his praise.

Delille, Jacques

2007-04-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.

Franklin, Benjamin

2007-04-11T21:40:00.000-07:00

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

When a friend deals with a friend, let the bargain be dear and well-penned; that they may continue friends to the end.

A Friend Is .....

2007-04-11T07:01:00.001-07:00

From Anonymous:

A friend is someone who helps you when you are down, and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!

A friend is like a rainbow. They brighten your life when you've been through a storm.

A friend is like sunlight, filtering into the quite corners of ones heart, offering bright new mornings and fresh hope yet demanding nothing in return.

A friend is someone that has the courage to tell you that you are wrong.

A friend is like a seatbelt, you may not always need them, but they will be there just in case!

A friend is someone whom we can always count on to count on us.

A Friend Is .....

2007-04-11T07:01:00.000-07:00