“Friendships are discovered rather than made.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” – Martin Luther King Jr
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
- “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
- “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings
- “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew
- “Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” – Jewish Saying
- “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “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.” – Albert Camus
- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Nigerian Proverb
- “A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” – Apocrypha
- “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
- “Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.” – Claude Mermet
- “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian (1647)
- “Friendship needs no words…” – Dag Hammarskjold
- “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay (1871)
- “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
- “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” – Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist.
- “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucious (551 – 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.
- “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille (1738 – 1813) French poet.
- “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.
- “Keep your friendships in repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British lexiographer.
- “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” – Samuel Johnston
- “It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.” – Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680) French writer.
- “If it is abuse – why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) British dramatist.
- “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.
- “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington
- “I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.” – George Washington
- “Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?” – Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus
- “These are called the pious frauds of friendship.” – Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) British novelist.
- “Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” – Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.
- “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.” – Samuel Johnston
“Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush…afraid that somebody might take you away from me.” – Unknown
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”- Bernard Meltzer
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”- Aristotle
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.” – Lois L. Kaufman
“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.” – Swedish proverb
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” – Homer
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” – Czech Proverb
- “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome
- “I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.” – William Shakespeare
- “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne
- “Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly
- “Friends have all things in common.” – Plato
- “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
- “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Unknown
- “No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” – George Eliot
- “It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly
- “The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner
- “The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” – Francoise Sagan
- “Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.” – Kahil Gibran
- “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli
- “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman
- “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
- “When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.” – Anatole Broyard
- “Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams
- “This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon
- “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” – Tehyi Hsieh
- “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
- “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale
- “Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.” – James Fenimore Cooper
- “Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes
- “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton
- “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
- “My friends are my estate.” – Emily Dickinson
- “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
- “A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” – Walter Winchell
- “A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
- “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” – John Leonard
- “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubard
- “I get by with a little help from my friends.” – John Lennon
- “Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” – Mary Catherwood
- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis
- “I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
- “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy…” – Guido
- “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” -Benjamin Disraeli
- “I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.” – Cher
- “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you think that friendship is all about colored flowers, joyfull, and happyness, well … you’re wrong. There are several negative friendship quotes that I’m gonna show you.
- “There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me … We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.” – Bing Crosby
- “Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!” – Bronwyn Polson
- I don’t trust him. We’re friends.” – Bertolt Brecht
- “I’ve noticed your hostility towards him … I ought to have guessed you were friends.” – Malcolm Bradbury
- “A friend in power is a friend lost” – Henry Adams
- “Whenever a friend suceeds, a little something in me dies.” – Gore Vidal
- “A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.” – Lord Samuel
- “These people aren’t your friends, they’re paid to kiss your feet.” – Radiohead
- “When I needed you most when I needed a friend, you let me down now like I let you down then” – Blink 182
- “Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.” – Honore Debalazac