Friendship quotations
Found 756 results for friendship quotations
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
Confucius
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
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
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
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
George Santayana
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
G. K. Chesterton
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.
Maria Callas
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Alva Edison
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his 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
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
Glenn Ford
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller
We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
Chief Joseph
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
William Shakespeare
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage
