Friends Quotes

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one

C.S. Lewis

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

William E. Rothschild

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

E.R. Hazlip

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. Proverbs 27:19

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Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

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A friend loveth at all times. Proverbs 17:17

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. Proverbs 18:24

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When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

C.S. Lewis

Never deceive a friend.

Hipparchus

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

George Jean Nathan

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

Christopher Hitchens

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors the living could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in advance. And that presented another difficulty. Many brave and now dead soldiers had nonetheless been conscripts. The known martyrs those who actually, voluntarily sought death and rejoiced in the fact had been the kamikaze pilots, immolating themselves to propitiate a 'divine' emperor who looked (as Orwell once phrased it) like a monkey on a stick. Their Christian predecessors had endured torture and death (as well as inflicted it) in order to set up a theocracy. Their modern equivalents would be the suicide murderers, who mostly have the same aim in mind. About people who set out to lose their lives, then, there seems to hang an air of fanaticism: a gigantic sense of self-importance unattractively fused with a masochistic tendency to self-abnegation. Not wholesome.The better and more realistic test would therefore seem to be: In what cause, or on what principle, would you your life?

Christopher Hitchens

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.

Simon Dach

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Will Rogers

Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives.

Anon.