Friends Quotes - Page 18

• The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Real, Eye, Glasses

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Depressing, People, Enemy

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.199

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• The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Fortune, Continuity

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.630

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• Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
  My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Should, Dear, Shows

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.142

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• A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Real, Light, Real Friends

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• No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.

  John Wozniak

  Together, Different, Path

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• Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Vanity, Sloth, Natural

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• To friendship every burden's light.

  John Gay

  Light, Burden

  John Gay (1806). “The Poetical Works of John Gay, in Three Volumes: Collated with the Best Edition”, p.85

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• Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

  H. L. Mencken

  Friendship, Belief, Common

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

  George Chapman

  Funny, Friendship, Dog

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.231

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• Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

  Richard Steele

  Friendship, Dresses, Matter

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.49

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• Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Distrust, Deceived

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• Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Dream, Giving Up, Desire

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• Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.235, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Heart, Sincerity

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• How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Delight, Absence, Length

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.151

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• Friends made fast seldom remain fast.

  Austin O'Malley

  Made

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• The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Understanding, Soul

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• A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mind, Temperature, Shady

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

  John Lyly

  Friendship, Fall, Affection

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  True Friend, Delight, Stranger

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.145

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• The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Struggle, Years

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• The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

  Charles Lamb

  Party, Going Away, Doe

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.

  Robert N. Lee

  Enemy, Mines, Axioms

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• I have no friends, there are only people I love.

  Louis Aragon

  People, No Friends, I Have No Friends

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