Friendship Quotes

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

"The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
-Plato

"Friends have all things in common."
-Plato

"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake."
-William Blake

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

"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

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
-Socrates

"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either."
-Sophocles

"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
-Oscar Wilde

"May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty."
-Irish 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 Sterne

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
-John Lennon

"If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"We are advertis'd by our loving friends."
-William Shakespeare

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. 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

"I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."
-M. C. Escher

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
-Seneca

"What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!"
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
-Hubert H. Humphrey

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."
-Pythagoras

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
-Arnold H. Glasgow

"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

"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
-Sallust