Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

It is better to have one friend [or ally] of great value than many who were good for nothing.

Really trying to find the people who really ride for you and are down for you, that's hard.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Few there are that will endure a true friend.

You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend.

You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.

I don't want to wait until something happens to see who my friends are.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

It’s important to be friends with people when you don’t need each other, so that when you do, there’s a strong bond of friendship.

All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend, to the neglect, or perhaps, against the interest of others; so that an old Greek said, "He that has friends has no friend.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

One may get everything in life but to find true and good friends is difficult.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.