Friends Quotes - page 4

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. (William Hazlitt)
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. View quote
George Eliot
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. View quote
Alexander Pope
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. View quote
Washington Irving
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. (Maya Angelou)
France has no friends, only interests. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. View quote
Thom Gunn
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. View quote
Colette
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. View quote
George Santayana
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our friends. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. (Oscar Wilde)
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. View quote
Jack Layton