Friendship quotations
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Happy is he whose friends were born before him.
Proverb
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.
Henry David Thoreau
The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
Samuel Butler
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
Samuel Johnson
Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with Him continually, and you will not sin, will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
St. Teresa of Avila
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
True friendship is not measured in days or decades.
Proverb
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
Ambrose Bierce
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
Anonymous
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca
A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere
