Friendship

48 quotes.

• A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

  Anonymous

• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

  C.S. Lewis

• A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

  Doris Wild Helmering

• A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

  Anonymous

• A friend is very different from an acquaintance. The former is tried and true; the latter only a casual shadow in one's life.

  Anonymous

• A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

  Doug Larson

• Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

  Anonymous

• Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

  Anonymous

• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

• Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

  Amanda Bradley

• Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself.

  Anonymous

• Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes.

  Irish Proverb

• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Kahlil Gibran

• Friendship is love with wings.

  Anonymous

• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.

  James Fenimore Cooper

• Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

  Randolph S. Bourne

• Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

  Mark Twain

• Hold a true friend with both your hands.

  Nigerian Proverb

• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  Walt Whitman

• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense.

  Ray Bradbury

• Life without a friend is like death without a witness.

  Spanish Proverb

• Make new friends, but keep old friends. One is silver, the other is gold. All of them are just like jewels. Age will mellow and refine them.

  Anonymous

• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

  Henry Ford

• Never injure a friend, even in jest.

  Cicero

• Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.

  Anonymous

• Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

  Winnie the Pooh

• Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.

  Swedish Proverb

• 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 service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

  Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon

• True friendship is never serene.

  Marquise de Sevigne

• True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from friendship and conversation of a few selection companions.

  Joseph Addison

• We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other.

  Lucian de Croszonza

• We are each of us in this world an angel with only one wing. In order to fly we must embrace each other.

  Cassandra Reed

• We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.

  Anonymous

• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  Edgar Watson Howe

• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

• With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.

  Anonymous

• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other good.

  Aristotle

• Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end but somewhere in the middle we've become the best of friends.

  Anonymous

• ... no man is useless... while he has a friend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

• 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

• 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.

  Buddha

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