Amazing Friendship Quotes
" . . . fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."
- Charles Dickens
" I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it precisely I don't know. One gets attached in a way to people one has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul."
- Joseph Conrad Victory
"A faithful friend is a strong defence and he that hath found one hath found a treasure"
- Cris
"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself."
- Frances Ward Weller
"A friend is a person who know what you are saying, even if you're not talking."
- Sarah Bennett
"A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he’s caused you."
- Marilyn Vos Savant
"A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one that will be sitting next to you in the cell saying 'That was awesome.'"
- Anonymous
"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."
- General Charles De Gaulle
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
- Baltasar Gracian
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
- George Washington
"Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God."
- Mechtild
"Don't pity the girl with one true friend. Envy her. Pity the girl with just a thousand acquaintances."
- Katie Obenchain
"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
- Blaise Pascal
"Friends are like stars... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there."
- Hulali Luta
"Friends are those who norish the spirit"
- Cris
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing ..."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius
"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
- James Francis Byrnes
"From wine what sudden friendship springs!"
- John Gay
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
- Confucious
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
- Dwight David Eisenhower
"I got a lot of best friends. Some o' them I don't even hardly know!"
- Archie Bunker
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
- Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
"If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky."
- Bryon Douglas
"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us."
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."
- Mark Twain
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending ..."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"Make use of your friends by being of use to them."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. "
- Confucius
"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."
- Sigmund Freud
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that ..."
- Honore de Balzac
"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but ..."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."
- Cindy Lew
"Silence is a friend who will never betray."
- Confucius
"The best mirror is an old friend. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
- Homer
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what ..."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet."
- Anonymous