Friendship Quotes and Sayings (3)
Quotes about Friendship

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

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

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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

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

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

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

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

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

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

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

Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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 with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

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

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

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

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

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

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

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

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne

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