Friendship quotations

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Wilson Mizner

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

George Santayana

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

Confucius

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Charlotte Bronte

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

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

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

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

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

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Thomas Fuller

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

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

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

Glenn Ford

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

Aristotle

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.

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

Oscar Wilde

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

It�s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Friendship quotations

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

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.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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.

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.

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.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

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.

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.

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

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

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.

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

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

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

It�s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.