Friendship Quotes

“If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.” Dale Carnegie

 

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.” Albert Camus

 

“He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” Thomas Jefferson

 

“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.” Carl Sandburg

 

“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

 

“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” Aristotle

 

“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

 

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

 

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

 

“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.” George Eliot

 

“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.” Miguel de Cervantes

 

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

 

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

 

“A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

 

“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend their faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” Henry Ward Beecher

 

“Never explain–your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” Elbert Hubbard

 

“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.” Sigmund Freud

“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.” Sir Francis Bacon

 

“This is the privilege of friendship, to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” Charles Lamb

 

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.” Blaise Pascal

 

“Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.” Sir Francis Bacon

 

“A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.” Ecc. 6:14 - The Bible

 

“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.” Charles Kingsley

 

“The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.” George Santayana

 

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” Mark Twain

 

“The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.” Henry David Thoreau

 

“We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.” Henry Kissinger

 

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

 

“For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.” Eschylus

 

“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.” Benjamin Franklin

 

“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

 

“A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.” Mark Twain

 

“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” Charles Caleb Colton

 

“Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

 

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” Martin Luther King

 

“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.” Samuel Patterson