Friends

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FRIENDS: A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS: Friends are relatives you make for yourself. (Eustache Deschamps, French poet, 1346-1406)

FRIENDS: The rich know not who is his friend. (Unknown source)

FRIENDS: It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. (Madame Dorothee Deluzy, French actress, 1747-1830)

FRIENDS: The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS: Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)

FRIENDS: In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best. (Unknown source)

FRIENDS: When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

FRIENDS: It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money. (Greek proverb)

FRIENDS: With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough. (Chinese proverb)

FRIENDS: Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Publilius Syrus, Syrian Latin writer, 85-43 BCE)

FRIENDS: It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. (Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher who founded the school of philosophy called Epicureanism, c. 341-270 BCE)

FRIENDS: Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. (Virginia Wolff, English modernist writer, 1882-1941)

FRIENDS: Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses. (Diane de Beausacq, French writer, 1829-1899)

FRIENDS: Give and take makes good friends. (Scottish proverb)

FRIENDS: The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. (Maya Angelou, U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

FRIENDS: It is easier to visit friends than to live with them. (Chinese proverb)

FRIENDS: Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. (Chinese proverb)

FRIENDS: In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John Churton Collins, British literary critic, 1848-1908)

FRIENDS: Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)

FRIENDS: Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. (Unknown source)

FRIENDS: A friend is a masterpiece of nature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS: Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. (Edna Buchanan, U.S. novelist, Born 1939)

FRIENDS: A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

FRIENDS: True friends stab you in the front. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

FRIENDS: Friends are lifelines! (Unknown source)

FRIENDS: A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FRIENDS: A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same. (H.G. Bohn, British publisher and founder of Bohns Libraries, 1796-1884)

FRIENDS: Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin, U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, Born 1939)