Free Friendship Quotes
"The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods."
- Napoléon Buonaparte
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome
"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."
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"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 you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
- Joseph Addison
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
- Joseph Addison
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends."
- Elizabeth Bowen
"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
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
- Mark Twain
"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language."
- Henry David Thoreau
"The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend."
- George Santayana
"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss can never be repaired."
- Southey
"The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships."
- Benjamin McLane Spock
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
- Carl Sandburg
"The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. "
- Maya Angelou
"The next three sent in by Irma Berbis Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together"
- Kim
"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
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums. "
- Sydney J. Harris
"The path from inner turmoil begins with a friendly ear."
- Splinter
"The paths of social advancement are strewn with shattered friendships."
- H. G. Wells
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right."
- Mark Twain
"The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so glad that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end."
- Robert Alan
"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences."
- Eugene Kennedy
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
- Cicero
"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. "
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose."
- George H. Allen
"The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good."
- Sid Ascher
"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. "
- Truman Capote
"The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A ..."
- Larry Flynt
"The verb to love in Persian is to have a friend. I love you translated literally is I have you as a friend, and I don't like you simply means I don't have you as a friend."
- Shusha Guppy
"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."
- Isaac Bashevis
"The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends."
- Voltaire
"The wise and intelligent are coming belatedly to realize that alcohol, and not the dog, is man's best friend. Rover is taking a beating -- and he should."
- W. C. Fields
"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. "
- Francis Bacon
"Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die."
- Dorothy Parker
"There are many cases of salesmen, who have nothing to offer a prospect except friendship, outselling salesmen with everything to offer — except friendship."
- Charles B. Roth
"There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain."
- Claudius Ptolemaeus