quotations about friends
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
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.
AESOP
Fables
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
ZIG ZIGLAR
attributed, The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought