friendship Quotes

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.