Friendship Quotes

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding
in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden."
-Goethe

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
-Confucious

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."
-unknown

"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

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don't walk behind me, I may not
lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend."
-unknown

"An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship."
-Spanish Proverb

"Friends are born, not made."
-Henry Adams

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life."
-Lee Iacocca

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
-Nigerian Proverb

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
-Albert Schweitzer

"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who
we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential."
-Rusty Berkus

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-Dale Carnegie

"Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me."
-Gravestone from the 1800s

"I do not want a friend
Who smiles when I smile
Who weeps when I weep
For my shadow in the pool
Can do better than that."
-Confucious

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to
you when you have forgotten the words."
-unknown

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave
footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
-Unknown

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet." --
Anonymous

"Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only
silence." -- Pam Brown

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you." -- Dale
Carnegie

"You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an
hour." -- Chinese Proverb

"It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter." -- Marlene Dietrich
"In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in
twenty." -- English Proverb

"My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me." -- Henry Ford

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope
I should have the guts to betray my country." -- E. M. Forster

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -- Anais Nin

"God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies." --
Proverb

"Life withougt a friend is death without a witness." -- Spanish Proverb

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in
our travels is an honest friend" -- Robert Lewis Stevenson

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families." -- Unknown

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to
grow."-- Alice Walker

"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other
tenth." -- Horace Walpole

"A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway." -- Christi Mary
Warner

"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." -- Frances Ward
Weller

Friends are born, not made.
* Henry Adams

Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him.
* Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
* Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
* Aristotle

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it
redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
* Francis Bacon

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good
and happiness of one another.
* Eustace Budgell

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they
really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
* Albert Camus

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a
passion which spares nothing.
* Albert Camus

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.
* Charles Caleb Colton

What a wretched lot of old shriveled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never
mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each
other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
* George Eliot

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
* Euripedes

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us
any more than love did.
* F. Scott Fitzgerald

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is
unhappy.
* Thomas Fuller

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
* Elbert Hubbard

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends,
you've had a great life.
* Lee Iacocca

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care
of all to acquire.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished
friendship.
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact
is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
* W. Somerset Maugham

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
* W. Somerset Maugham

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no
otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it
was I.
* Michel de Montaigne

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

To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.
* William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love.
* William Shakespeare

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.
* Mark Twain

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
* Voltaire

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
* Oscar Wilde