Quotes About Friendship

Give me the avowed, the erect and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, oh save me from the candid friend!

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Forget your woes when you see your friend.

When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.

The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

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

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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

Friends come and go, enemies linger.

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.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

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.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.