Friend Quotes

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My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.

Marina Tsvetaeva

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Brontë

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián

True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.

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.

None of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family — but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal.

Bruce Jay Friedman

When twilight drops her curtain down. And pins it with a star
Remember that you have a friend
Though she may wander far.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

William Banting

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation...

Would you that spangle of Existence spend
About the Secret — Quick about it, Friend!
A Hair perhaps divides the False and True —
And upon what, prithee, may life depend?
L.

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Lady Randolph Churchill

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.