Always Quote by Thomas Becket

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are proved by adversity.

— Anonymous

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

— Anthony Trollope

“We gain true friends by having a kind heart and not deceiving people. The friends that we make when we have power, position, and…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

— Aesop

People are not naturally either friends or enemies: friendship and enmity arise from circumstances.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

— Anonymous

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Sympathies and antipathies . . . Human friendships can very quickly become a club of mediocrities, enclosed in mutual flattery and approval, preventing people…

— Jean Vanier

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

— Barry Humphries

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose…

— Charles Alexander Eastman