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Friendship Quotes and Sayings (3)
Quotes about Friendship
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Relationship
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
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
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched 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 with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have to really like you to share my food with you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
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