Quotes About Friendship (Page 2)

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A friend to all is a friend to none.  ~ Aristotle


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


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  ~ Dave Tyson Gentry


In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed. ~ Khalil Gibran


If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.  ~ Helen Keller


Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.  ~ Dorothy Parker


A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.  ~ George Eliot


True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.  ~ Edna Buchanan


The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.  ~ Francis Bacon


They are rich who have true friends.  ~ Thomas Fuller


Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.  ~ Charles M. Schulz


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


A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.  ~ Woodrow Wilson


Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.  ~ Mark Twain


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


A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.  ~ John Lubbock


Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.  ~ Epicurus


Your wealth is where your friends are.  ~ Plautus


Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.  ~ Socrates


The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.  ~ Bob Lemon


Friends are God's apology for relations.  ~ Hugh Kingsmill


Friends are the sunshine of life.  ~ John Hay


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


Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.  ~ George Washington


Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.  ~ Mark Twain


The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.  ~ Edna Buchanan


Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!  ~ George Eliot


A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.  ~ William Shakespeare


Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.  ~ Spanish proverb


There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.  ~ Charles Dickens


What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.  ~ C.S. Lewis


He does good to himself who does good to his friend.  ~ Erasmus


Life without a friend is death without a witness.  ~ Spanish proverb


You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.  ~ Laurence J. Peter


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


In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.


One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.  ~ Gail Godwin


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


If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.  ~ Merry Browne


Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.  ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas


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


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


Man's best support is a very dear friend.  ~ Cicero


Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.  ~ Lady Marguerite Blessington


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


A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.  ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas


Love demands infinitely less than friendship.  ~ George Jean Nathan


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


Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.  ~ Kathleen Norris


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


Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.  ~ George Eliot


There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.  ~ Alexander Pope


Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.  ~ Francis Bacon


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