Friend Quotes & Sayings

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
--Benjamin Franklin

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
--Aristotle

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

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
--Cicero

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.
--Aristotle

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
--Saint Jerome

I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.
--William Shakespeare

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
--Thomas Jefferson

Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.
--John Donne

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
--John Boyle O'Reilly

Friends have all things in common.
--Plato

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
--Artistotle

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
--Henry Ford

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
--George Eliot

It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm...
--Shelly

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
--Wilson Mizner

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
--Thomas Jefferson

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
--Exupery

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
--Edward Everett Hale

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
--Henry David Thoreau

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.
--James Fenimore Cooper

Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
--James Francis Byrnes