Friendship Quotes

"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
-Charles M. De Talleyrand

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
-Rod Mckuen

"Hey, Dennis, this is Mike! Kick me, please! I'll settle for the price of a set of golf clubs."
-Mike Royko

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
-Baltasar Gracian

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
-Japanese Proverb

"To find a friend, one must close one eye; to keep him, two."
-George Norman Douglas

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
-George Santayana

"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life."
-David Gayson

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
-Henry Brooks Adams

"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature."
-John Burroughs

"People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist."
-Daisaku Ikeda

"Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious and gracious Friend expressing his mind to us by his word, that we may know it."
-Jonathan Edwards

""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
-Louisa May Alcott

"Choose an author as you choose a friend."
-Sir Arthur Helps

"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
-Georgia O'Keeffe

"You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!"
-Sasha Azevedo

"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
-Elie Wiesel

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-Elbert Hubbard

"I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend."
-Edward G. Bulwer lytton

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one."
-Oscar Wilde

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
-Charlotte Bronte

"A hedge between keeps friendship green."
-German Proverb

"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

"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
-C. S. Lewis