Friends Quotes

One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.

Steve Maraboli

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Josh Billings

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.

Norman Douglas

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb

Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you; they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings.

Steve Maraboli

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Charles Eastman

(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.

Christopher Hitchens

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Lois L. Kaufman

Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.

Christopher Hitchens

It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.

Charles Dickens

When you're alone is when you can count your friends.

Stephen Richards

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Cassandra Clare

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Paulo Coelho

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Baltasar Gracian

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Francis Bacon

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

George D. Prentice

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt