Friendship Quotes

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while he has left us, others are coming into the world at the same time, and probably in this our territory. There is a continuous change, an ingress of beings into the world and an egress out of it.

True friendship is never serene.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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.