Quotes About Support

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

A best friend isn't just someone who's always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets.

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

Friendship is communion.

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies