Quotes About Friendship

If I had to sum up friendship in one word, it would be comfort.  ~ Terri Guillemets


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~ Elisabeth Foley


The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.  ~ Aristotle


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


Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.  ~ Aristotle


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 right.  ~ Mark Twain


Of my friends I am the only one I have left.  ~ Terence


Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.  ~ E.W. Howe


A hedge between keeps friendships green.  ~ German proverb


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~ Plautus


If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.  ~ Maxwell Maltz


Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.  ~ Aristotle


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~ Grace Pulpit


The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.  ~ Joseph Conrad


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~ William Blake


Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


No road is long with good company.  ~ Turkish Proverb


I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.  ~ Thomas A. Edison


The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.  ~ William Blake


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~ Marcel Proust


The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring of nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.  ~ Mark Twain


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~ Donna Roberts


Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.  ~ Thomas Fuller


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


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~ Marlene Dietrich


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.  ~ Arnold H. Glasgow


My friends are my estate.  ~ Emily Dickinson


Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.  ~ Aristotle


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  ~ George Santayana


'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.  ~ Jacques Delille


But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.  ~ Shirley Maclaine


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.  ~ Arnold H. Glasgow


A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.   ~ Elbert Hubbard


To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.  ~ Brandi Snyder


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


He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


It takes a long time to grow an old friend.  ~ John Leonard


True friends stab you in the front.  ~ Oscar Wilde


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~ Arnold Glasow


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~ Sicilian Proverb


A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  ~ Aristotle


When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.  ~ E. W. Howe


Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.  ~ Mason Cooley


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


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