Famous quotes containing the word friend:
“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:24.