Friendship Quotes

“We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Age appears to be best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

— Francis Bacon

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”

— William Butler Yeats

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.”

— Robert Browning

“Interpretation of 'Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?'”

— Unknown

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted, it covers up all differences of class and country.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

“We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.”

— Paul Valéry

“There are no true friends in politics; we are all sharks circling and waiting for traces of blood to appear in the water.”

— Alan Clark

“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”

— Robert Orben

“Some people go to priests; others go to poetry; I to my friends.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

— Albert Camus

“Old wood is best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

— Athenaeus

“He who hath many friends hath none.”

— Aristotle

“Fame is a fickle friend.”

— Lockhart

“A decent boldness ever meets with friends.”

— Homer

“Marriage is one long conversation chequered by disputes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

— Helen Keller

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”

— E. B. White

“What a blind person needs is not a teacher, but another self.”

— Helen Keller

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The world is round, so that friendship may encircle it.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell; you see, I have friends in both places.”

— Mark Twain

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

“It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.”

— Charles Kingsley

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”

— Walt Whitman

“What is man without the beasts? For if all the beasts were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.”

— Chief Seattle

“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”

— George Eliot

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

— Publilius Syrus

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”

— Anna Deavere Smith

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”

— Joseph Conrad

“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations; people wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.”

— Franz Schubert

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

— Ethel Barrymore

“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”

— Samuel Pepys

“All for one, one for all; that is our device.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

— Robert Southey

“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”

— Aristotle

“A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.”

— Erma Bombeck

“So long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“No man is useless while he has a friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I keep my friends as misers do their treasure; because of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.”

— Pietro Aretino

“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.”

— Boethius

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

— Mark Twain

““No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.””

— Lewis Carroll

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”

— Wayne Dyer

“Without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

— Aristotle

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”

— William Butler Yeats

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections; there is nothing like it in this world.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.”

— Charles Lamb

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

— Khalil Gibran

“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”

— Diogenes

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

— Aristotle

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

— J.K. Rowling

“It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

— George Washington

“All lasting business is built on friendship.”

— Alfred A. Montapert

“No one feels another's grief; no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another; in reality, they only pass each other by.”

— Franz Schubert

“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

— Jack Lemmon

“Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”

— George Eliot

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

— Winston Churchill

“I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.”

— Taylor Swift

“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.”

— Anwar Sadat

“Trust is hard to come by, that's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.”

— Eminem

“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.”

— Harry S. Truman

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”

— Franz Schubert

“Before the flowers of friendship faded, friendship faded.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller

“Friends applaud, the comedy is over.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Your wealth is where your friends are.”

— Plautus

“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Friendship and money: oil and water.”

— Mario Puzo

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

— William Blake

“It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

— George Washington

“It seems that laughter needs an echo.”

— Henri Bergson

“Of what shall a man be proud if he is not proud of his friends?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new and near the end the milestones into headstones change; neath every one, a friend.”

— James Russell Lowell

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

— George Washington

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Between men and women, there is no friendship possible; there is passion, enmity, worship, love—but no friendship.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations, due to scarcity. Two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”

— Truman Capote

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

— Henry Rollins

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

— William Blake

“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

— Washington Irving

“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”

— Confucius

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”

— Herman Melville

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

— Baltasar Gracián

“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”

— Ben Jonson

“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”

— Marc Chagall

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“You can change your friends, but you can't change your neighbours.”

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”

— Mother Teresa

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

— Charles Dickens

“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“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

“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days; no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

— Mencius

“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.”

— Walter Winchell

“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”

— Charles Darwin

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”

— Jane Austen

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

— Oscar Wilde

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”

— St. Jerome

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

— Pericles

“I maintain that if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.”

— Blaise Pascal

“It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.”

— Tacitus

“The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.”

— Cathy Guisewite

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

— Epicurus

“The good man is the friend of all living things.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

— George Eliot

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

— Epictetus

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Friendships are the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure.”

— Edward Young

“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

— Robert Frost

“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Better be alone than in bad company.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Grant stood by me when I was crazy and I stood by him when he was drunk and now we stand by each other.”

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“To his dog: Every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

— Aristotle

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”

— Plautus

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”

— Walt Whitman

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”

— Euripides

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Men and women have strengths that complement each other.”

— Edwin Louis Cole

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”

— George Eliot

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

— Plutarch

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

— Mark Twain

“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies; for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”

— Diogenes

“When we root, root, root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.”

— Richard Roeper

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

— Robert Benchley

“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”

— Montesquieu

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”

— Publilius Syrus

“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”

— Leo Buscaglia

“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

— Richard Bach

“Ideologies separate us; dreams and anguish bring us together.”

— Eugène Ionesco

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”

— George Washington

“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”

— Margaret Walker

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

— Charles Dickens

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.”

— ani difranco

“I like funny guys, and those for some reason tend to be nerdy guys.”

— Megan Fox

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

— William Shakespeare

“There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

— Henry Winkler

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

— Jim Morrison

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature; I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”

— Charles Dickens

“Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.”

— Theocritus

“An excellent man; he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.”

— Oscar Wilde

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”

— Henry Ford

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”

— Euripides

“Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Bad company corrupts good character.”

— Menander

“Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.”

— Mark Twain

“Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.”

— Mark Twain

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”

— Desmond Tutu

“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.”

— Giotto di Bondone

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

— Jane Austen

“Age appears to be best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

— Francis Bacon

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