Friendship & Friend Quotes

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

 

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

 

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambera

 

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Bremer

 

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Elizabeth Bowen

 

The only way to have
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

 

The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish Proverb

 

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

 

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Colton

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 

 

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 

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