Friendship
206 quotes: 38 by Keith Craft, 168 from other voices.
Other voices on Friendship
- In life a friend may be often found and lost; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
- In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness.
- It is more shameful to be distrustful of our friends than to be deceived by them.
- It’s easy to cheer for people when they’re up. A better test of character is whether you keep rooting for them when they’re down. Don’t be a fair-weather fan of people. They need support more when they’re struggling than when they’re succeeding.
- It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.
- It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
- Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.
- Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.
- Keep your friendships in repair, and then see if you do not find your horizon broadened, your life sweetened, and the weary weight of this sad old world lightened.
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.Oscar WildeSourced
- Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
- Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney SmithSourced
- Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Loyalty is the desire to defend someone when they are not there to defend themselves.
- Make friends with people who want the best for you.
- Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
- Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
- Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
- Of all possessions there is none equal to that of a good and sincere friend
- Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
- Old Friends are best; yet, as the Swift Years run, Make New Ones too, or Time may leave you None.
- Old friends are the great blessing of one's latter years—half a word conveys one's meaning. They have memory of the same events, and have the same mode of thinking.Horace WalpoleSourced
- One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.
- One must not fear truth, because it is a friend of man and of his freedom
- One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
- Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.James RachelsSourced
- Perhaps there is no surer ground for the foundation of a friendship than a shared time of trouble.
- Pray for your friends. Everybody going through something they don’t talk about.
- Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
- Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
- Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
- Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
- Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
- Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
- Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
- Silence is a friend that will never betray.