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

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

"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

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. 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 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

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

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

"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

"Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

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