Best friend quotes (4)

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.

Stone Temple Pilots

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Evelyn Waugh

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jean De La Bruyere

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Robert Lynd

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Edgar Watson Howe

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. Its's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfour

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Bible

FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

Quintus Ennius

By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

Thomas Moore

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.

Elaine Richards

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Sean Covey

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warner

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Sir Francis Bacon