Friends Quotes - Quotes about Friends

"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."

"A friend is a present you give yourself."

"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."

"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

"The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."