Quotes About Support

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

None is so rich as to throw away a friend.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.

Friends are a second existence.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

If God be for us, who can be against us?

Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government, the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.

The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.