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Friends Quotes - Page 11

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

I get by with a little help from my friends.

"Song: "With a Little Help from My Friends"". 1967.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital