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Quotes About Loyalty

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
~ Thomas Fuller
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)
~ Unknown
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~ Unknown
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
~ Euripides
Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
~ Greek proverb
Let your best be for your friend...
~ Kahlil Gibran
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
~ Indian proverb
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
~ Unknown
When you go somewhere your heart goes with you, But when you leave your friends their heart goes with yours.
~ Unknown
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
~ Unknown
Little friends may prove great friends.
~ Aesop
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.
~ Erica Jong
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
~ Jewish proverb
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
~ Euripides
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables
~ Victor Hugo
Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
~ Unknown
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.
~ Unknown
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
~ Sir Francis Bacon