Friendship Quotes
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world
to explain. It's not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything.
•Muhammad Ali
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Others stay awhile, make footprints on our
hearts and we are never, ever the same.
•Unknown
Make new friends but keep the old ones;
one is silver and the other's gold.
•Anonymous
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
•George Jean Nathan
Women can form a friendship with a man
very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight
physical antipathy must probably help.
•Friedrich Nietzsche
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
•Nigerian Proverb
Friendship is constant in all other things
save in the office and affairs of love.
•William Shakespeare
The mere process of growing old together will make
the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
•Logan Pearsall Smith
A man cannot be said to succeed in this
life who does not satisfy one friend.
•Henry David Thoreau
Laughter is not at all a bad
beginning for a friendship, and it
is far the best ending for one.
•Oscar Wilde
Some people go to priests; others
to poetry; I to my friends.
•Virginia Woolf
Chide a friend in private
and praise him in public.
•Solon
Depend on no man, on no friend, but him
who can depend on himself. He only
who acts conscientiously towards himself
will act so towards others, and vice versa.
•Lavater
Friendship is born at that moment when one
person says to another, What! You, too?
I thought I was the only one.
•C. S. Lewis
If you want enemies, excel others;
if you want friends let others excel you.
•Colton
Old friends are best. King James
used to call for his old shoes;
they were easiest to his feet.
•John Seldon
There's not so much danger in a known
foe than in a suspected friend.
•Nabb
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
•Syrus
True friendship is like sound health,
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
•Charles Caleb Colton
We cherish our friends not for their
ability to amuse us,
but for ours to amuse them.
•Evelyn Waugh
Who purposely cheats his
friend, would cheat his God.
•Lavater
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
•Samuel Butler
A friend is a person with whom I may be
sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
•Ralph Waldo Emerson,
If all men knew what others say of them,
there would not be four friends in the world.
•Blaise Pascal
I don't need a friend who changes when
I change and who nods when I nod;
my shadow does that much better.
•Plutarch
There is as much difference between the
counsel that a friend giveth, and that a
man giveth himself, as there is between
counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
•Francis Bacon
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves,
we shall be honest with each other.
•George Macdonald
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
•Cicero
Friendship is Love without his wings!
•Byron
To give counsel as well as to take
it is a feature of true friendship.
•Cicero
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
•Shakespeare
That friendship will not continue
to the end which is begun for an end.
•Quarles
He who has not the weakness of
friendship has not the strength.
•Joubert
The mind is lowered through association
with inferiors. With equals it attains
equality; and with superiors, superiority.
•The Hitopadesa
Rare as is true love,
true friendship is rarer.
•La Fontaine
The more we love our friends, the less
we flatter them; is by excusing nothing
that pure love shows itself.
•Moliere
One friend in a lifetime is much;
two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life,
a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
•Henry Brook Adams
A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
•Lord Samuel
While your friend holds you affectionately
by both your hands you are safe,
for you can watch both of his.
•Anonymous
Even the best of friends cannot
attend each other's funeral.
•Kehlog Albran
The best way to destroy your enemy
is to make him your friend.
•Abraham Lincoln
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited,
but in adversity they come without invitation.
•Theophrastus
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
•George Washington
But friendship is precious, not only in the
shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks
to a benevolent arrangement of things,
the greater part of life is sunshine.
•Thomas Jefferson
True friendship brings sunshine to the
shade, and shade to the sunshine
•Thomas Burke