Friendship Quotes and Sayings (2)
Quotes about Friendship

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

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Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

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.
- The Buddha

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

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.
- Mark Twain

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

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

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

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