Friendship quotes

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

“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Winning friends begins with friendliness.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“You are beautiful and you are alone.”

“There cannot be friendship without equality.”

“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.”

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

“The friends of my friends are my friends.”

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

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

“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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

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

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

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

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”

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

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

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

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”