Quotes
Quotes about Friends
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
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?
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.
Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye.
Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has severest virtue for its basis, And such a friendship ends not but with life.
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. - George Bancroft,
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . . I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.
Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt: Where amity is ty'd with band of truth, All benefits are there in common set.
How to win friends and influence people.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?
