Quotations: On Friendship

“Com­mand the assis­tance of a faithul friend” –Dryden

“Un amigo a todo el mundo es amigo de nadie”  (trans­lated: A friend to every­body is a friend to nobody”) –Span­ish Proverb

“False friend­ship, like the ivy, decays the wall it embraces; but true friend­ship gives new life and ani­ma­tion to the object it sup­ports.” –Burton

“Talk­ing with a friend is noth­ing but think­ing aloud” –Addison

“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sun-flower also.  He attracts and fol­lows” –Richter

“Friends, but few on earth, and there­fore dear.” –Pollok

“Friends are much bet­ter tried in bad for­tune than in good.” –Aristotle

“Friend­ship improves hap­pi­ness, and abates mis­ery, by the dou­bling of our joy and the divid­ing of our grief.” –Cicero

“Friend­ship is a strong and habit­ual incli­na­tion of two per­sons to pro­mote the good and hap­pi­ness of each other.” –Addison

“A good man is the best friend, and there­fore soon­est to be cho­sen, longest to be retained, and indeed never to be parted with, unless he ceases to be that for which he is cho­sen.” –Jeremy Taylor