Quotes on Friends

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.Ralph Waldo Emerson

• friends
• home

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.John Churton Collins

• adversity
• friends

Good company and good discourse are the sinews of virtue.Izaak Walton

• friends
• associates

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.William Shakespeare

• friends
• associates

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington

• friends
• trust
• manners

All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two.Thomas Jefferson

• friends

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw

• friends

We acquire the characteristics of the people we associate with on a steady basis.Zig Ziglar

• friends
• associates

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.James Fredericks

• friends
• diversity
• tolerance