Friendship quotes

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“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

John Churton Collins (1848–1908) British literary critic

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

Gloria Naylor (1950–2016) American writer

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

“If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue”

Alice Miller (1923–2010) Swiss psychologist

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

“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.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

“do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“Winning friends begins with friendliness.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

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

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."”

Clive Staples Lewis book The Four Loves

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“You are beautiful and you are alone.”

Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars

“There cannot be friendship without equality.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

Clive Staples Lewis book The Four Loves

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

Walter Winchell (1897–1972) American gossip journalist

“The friends of my friends are my friends.”

John le Carré book The Mission Song

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

“The best of it all is, God is with us.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

Eugene Kennedy (1928–2015) American psychologist

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

Len Wein (1948–2017) American comic book writer and editor

“A Friend to all, is a Friend to none.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

Дуг Ларсон (1926)

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”

Дуглас Пейджест (1950)

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.”

Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.”

Christie Brinkley (1954) American model

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

Isocrates (-436–-338 BC) ancient greek rhetorician

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”

Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) Dutch priest and writer

“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

Plautus (-254–-184 BC) Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period

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

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

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

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs

“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”

Richard Burton (1925–1984) Welsh actor

“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian

“Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist