Quotes For Friendship  

 

"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

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
-- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
-- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-- Aristotle. (4th century B.C.)

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino (1537)

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.

"A friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
-- Lord Byron (1806)

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
-- Moshe Dayan

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

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)

"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)

"A good friend is my nearest relation."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)

"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"Your friend is your needs answered."
-- Kahil Gibran

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
-- Kahil Gibran.

"Let your best be for your friend..."
-- Kahil Gibran

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil Gibran

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)

"Friendship needs no words..."
-- Dag Hammarskjold

"Friends are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)

"The best mirror is an old friend."
--George Herbert

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
-- Samuel Johnson

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
-- Helen Keller

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)

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

"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
-- Nelson Mandela

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
-- Nigerian proverb

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
-- Charles Peguy

"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
-- William Penn

"Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies."
--Yitzhak Rabin

Peace is achieved one person at a time, through a series of friendships.
--Fatma Reda

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."
-- Sallust (1st century B.C.)

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
-- Sophocles (409 BC)

"No man is useless while he has a friend."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
-- Mark Twain

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
-- Len Wein

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
-- Woodrow Wilson

 

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For more Inspiring thoughts on friendship here are two books that you'll treasure like friends:

• A BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP, by Dr. Rudolp Brasch (Angus & Robertson\HarperCollins, 1982).
  • This book is a wonderful celebration of friendship. It is filled with inspiring stories of friendship and sprinkled with uplifting quotes.
• KINDRED SPIRITS: Meditations on Family and Friends, edited by Peg Streep, with paintings by Claudia Karabaic Sargent. (Viking Studio Books, 1995).
  • This is a beautifully illustrated book of quotations and literary passages that honor friendship. The selections are inspiring, and the accompanying illustrations are exquisitely breathtaking.