Friend Quotes

A friend is one who takes me for what I am.

Henry David Thoreau

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

Jean Helion

A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

Jack Handey

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

Portuguese Proverb

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Edward W. Howe

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Henri-FrÈdÈric Amiel

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Charles Caleb Colton

As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

Mother Teresa

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: "Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Max DePree

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Gore Vidal

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

Charles Churchill

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Euripides