Friendship

"For who not needs shall never lack a friend, And who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him his enemy."

"Out upon this half-fac'd fellowship!"

"Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! give me them that will face me."

"Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends And give your hearts to, when they once perceive The least rub in your fortunes, fall away Like water from ye, never found again But where they mean to sink ye."

"As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart."

"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are."

"To wail friends lost Is not by much so wholesome — profitable, As to rejoice at friends but newly found."

"When did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?"

"I would be friends with you and have your love."

"Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart."

"Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent."

"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

"I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me."

"Friendship's full of dregs."

"For by these Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends."

"The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie."

"Remembrance and regrets, they too are a part of friendship."

"Do I not most effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?"

"A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure. A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his worth."

"He who betrays a secret is no longer trusted; he will no longer find reliable friends. Love your friend and be loyal; if you have revealed his secrets, go with him no longer. It is like having lost some of your relatives: his friendship to you has died. Like a bird, you have let your friend go, you will not get him back. When you open your hand, the bird flies off; do not pursue him: he is far away and has fled like a gazelle from the snare. For a wound can be bandaged and an insult forgiven, but if you betray a secret there is no hope."

"I don’t care what a man’s character is, if he’s my friend, a true friend, I will be a friend to him and preach the Gospel of salvation to him, and give him good counsel, helping him out of his difficulties. Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease, and men to become friends and brothers..."

"A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity."

"A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy."

"Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory."

"What matter that the man stands for much I cannot love—the moment he touches the realms of truth he enters my world and is my friend."

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

"That my friend should be well is our wish, and that our enemies should be gone! May those friendly to you reach their goal as a ship does a friendly harbour! May your enemy, like the flood waters of a river, return to his city."

"Confidence is the only bond of friendship."

"Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."

"Friendship is not for merriment but for stern reproach when friends go astray."

"Well, I think it’s easier to develop friendships but I’m not so sure when you get back down to the traditional sense, and that would be the friends that are here in good times and bad. I’m not so sure necessarily how many of those friends would be around if things did take a turn for the worst. I’ve oftentimes thought that I’d like to test some people and find out and just played a little game of doing the testing and which has been done on occasion. But it’s very easy to develop friends but it’s very hard to see whether or not they’re real friends."

"If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship."

"Les méchants n’ont que des complices; les voluptueux ont des compagnons de débauche; les intéressés ont des associés; les politiques assemblent des factieux; le commun des hommes oisifs a des liaisons; les princes ont des courtisans; les hommes vertueux ont seuls des amis."

"Old friends are the great blessing of one's latter years—half a word conveys one's meaning. They have memory of the same events, and have the same mode of thinking."

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature — it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist — to sympathise with a friend's success."

"I have lost friends, some by death [...] others through sheer inability to cross the street."

"Others because you did not keep"

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone This book or that, come to this hallowed place Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon, Ireland's history in their lineaments trace, Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends."

"And friend received with thumps upon the back."

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."

"A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does."

"Death is mighty, and is no one's friend."

"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."

"Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods."

"The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent,And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent."

"Never Explain—your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway"