„There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.“
— Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274
Quotes For Bestfriend
A collection of quotes on the topic of relationship, for bestfriend, for friend, friendship.
Best quotes for bestfriend
„What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
Variant: A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Variant: Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Source: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, p. 188; also reported in various sources as:
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
„Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.“
— William Shakespeare, book The Passionate Pilgrim
Source: The Passionate Pilgrim
„You are what you believe yourself to be.“
— Paulo Coelho, book The Witch of Portobello
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Context: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.
„It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
„Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
His response when "accused of treating his opponents with too much courtesy and kindness, and when it was pointed out to him that his whole duty was to destroy them", as quoted in More New Testament Words (1958) by William Barclay; either this anecdote or Lincoln's reply may have been adapted from a reply attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund:
:* Some courtiers reproached the Emperor Sigismond that, instead of destroying his conquered foes, he admitted them to favour. “Do I not,” replied the illustrious monarch, “effectually destroy my enemies, when I make them my friends?”
::* "Daily Facts" in The Family Magazine Vol. IV (1837), p. 123 http://books.google.de/books?id=aW0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123&dq=destroy; also quoted as simply in "Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?" in The Sociable Story-teller (1846)
Disputed
„A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.“
— Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971
„I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.“
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
Variant: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
„Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
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„In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
„It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.“
— Epicurus ancient Greek philosopher -341 - -269 BC
— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952
„There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.“
— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
„To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„We see the world not as it is, but as we are.“
— Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife
Dag Redwing hickory Bluefield
Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008), p. 163
The Sharing Knife, Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008)
„We were together. I forget the rest.“
— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
„Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.“
— Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924
Red Cross Speech http://books.google.com/books?id=f6l-dsvnjhEC&pg=PA406&dq=%22Friendship+is+the+only+cement%22, New York (18 May 1918)
1910s
„Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.“
— Maya Angelou, book Letter to My Daughter
Variant: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Source: Letter to My Daughter
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
„True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
„One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.“
— Seneca the Younger Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4 - 65 BC
„You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.“
— A.A. Milne, book Winnie-the-Pooh
Variant: You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
— Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954
Variant: Everyone wants 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.
„There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.“
— Jim Henson American puppeteer 1936 - 1990
Source: Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Variant: You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 52 (in 1998 edition)
„Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.“
— Charles Lamb English essayist 1775 - 1834
Source: The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
„No matter where you go, there you are“
— Yogi Berra American baseball player, manager, coach 1925 - 2015
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.“
— Aristotle, book Nicomachean Ethics
Book VIII, 1155a.5
Nicomachean Ethics
Original: (el) ἄνευ γὰρ φίλων οὐδεὶς ἕλοιτ᾽ ἂν ζῆν, ἔχων τὰ λοιπὰ ἀγαθὰ πάντα
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics
„I will not let you go into the unknown alone.“
— Bram Stoker Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula 1847 - 1912
„Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.“
— Walter Dean Myers American writer 1937 - 2014
Source: Slam!
„Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.“
— Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
„There is no friend as loyal as a book.“
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
„It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Source: Emerson in His Journals
„The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.“
— Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
„Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.“
— Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967
„My best friend is one who brings out the best in me“
— Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947
Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
Misattributed
„Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.“
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet 1807 - 1882
— Kristin Hannah American writer 1960
Source: Firefly Lane
— Katherine Mansfield New Zealand author 1888 - 1923
As quoted in Katherine Mansfield : A Biography (1953) by Antony Alpers, p. 266
„Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.“
— Sarah Dessen American writer 1970
Variant: This world is an awful/ugly place not to have a best friend.
Source: Someone Like You (1998)
„Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.“
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012
As quoted in The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (2009) by Deborah Norville, p. 65
„A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.“
— Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998
„Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox American author and poet 1850 - 1919
Variant: We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.
„When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.“
— Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989
„Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.“
— Oscar Wilde, book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
„I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.“
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
„The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variant: The only way to have a friend is to be one.
„Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families“
— Tennessee Williams American playwright 1911 - 1983
„Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.“
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
This may be original with Groucho, but the Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/category/jim-brewer/ mentions the earliest report found in a 1958 issue of Boy's Life magazine where it is attributed to Jim Brewer.
Misattributed
Variant: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
„True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.“
— Nicole Richie American television personality, musician, actress, and author 1981
„But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.“
— A.A. Milne British author 1882 - 1956
„Friends show their love in times of trouble.“
— Euripidés ancient Athenian playwright -480 - -406 BC
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
March 1937
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
„You have to know what you want to get it.“
— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946
„Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.“
— Candace Bushnell, book Sex and the City
Source: Sex and the City
„A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.“
— Maya Angelou, book Letter to My Daughter
Source: Letter to My Daughter
„In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.“
— John Churton Collins British literary critic 1848 - 1908
— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965
Variant: Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
„Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.“
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
Source: Vampire Academy
„Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.“
— Jean De La Fontaine French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621 - 1695
„That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.“
— Kristin Hannah American writer 1960
Source: Firefly Lane
„A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.“
— Markus Zusak, book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
„A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.“
— Les Brown American politician 1945
„The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Domestic Life
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
„One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.“
— Euripidés ancient Athenian playwright -480 - -406 BC
— Ray Bradbury, book Fahrenheit 451
19 September 1777
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
Source: Fahrenheit 451
„do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?“
— Robert Greene, book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
„I get by with a little help from my friends.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
„True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart“
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
„All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.“
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox American author and poet 1850 - 1919
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
„No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.“
— Alice Walker American author and activist 1944
