Biblical Friendship Quotes

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
- Bible
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
- Buddha
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
- Wilson, Thomas
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- Cicero
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
- John Mason Brown
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul! Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society!
- Robert Blair
Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.
- Susannah Centlivre
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
- Jesse Owens
Frienship is almost always the union of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spot.
- George Santayana
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our FRIENDs, soften to us our enemies.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren’t bad people; they’re just acquaintances.
- Jay Leno
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.
- Claude Louis Hector de Villars
Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
- C. A. Bartol
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; he hurts me most who lavishly commends.
- Winston Churchill
Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.
- Albert Camus
He gained from Heaven (that was wished) a friend.
- Gray
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
- Jeremy Taylor
He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather FRIENDs around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.
- I Ching
Her friends mourned her, and whoever knew her, was her friend.
- Grillparzer, Franz
Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
- Franklin P. Jones
How miserable things seem to be arranged in this world! If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose the, and be doubly pained by the loss.
- Abraham Lincoln
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
- Walter Martin
I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
- Charles Olson
I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
- Laura Prepon
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
- Jose Saramago
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
- Cher
I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
- John Ratzenberger
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
- Confucius
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
- Meryl Streep
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for FRIENDship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
- Eric Heiden
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
- Gavin Bryars
I have had, and may have still, a thousand FRIENDs, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
- Lord Byron
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.
- Albert Einstein
I might give my life for a friend, but he'd better not ask me to do up a parcel.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- John Burroughs
I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.
- Devon Sawa