Friends Quotes

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

John Mason Brown

Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!

Stephen Richards

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Sheryl Condie

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

Christopher Hitchens

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Kahlil Gibran

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Mary Dixon Thayer

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.

Stephen Ambrose

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

J.K. Rowling

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

Dumas The Younger

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Jess Moody

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

Christopher Hitchens

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Austin O'Malley

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Austin O'Malley

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus