Famous Friendship Quotes 

   

We have hundreds of quotes on love and friendship. However, we won't make you look at one at a time like many other websites do. There are about 50 poems on each page. 

Love Quotes  1  2  3  4  5

Friendship Quotes  1  2  3


Friends are born, not made. 
* Henry Adams 

Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him. 
* Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10 

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. 
* Aristotle 

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. 
* Francis Bacon 

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. 
* Eustace Budgell 

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. 
* Albert Camus 

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. 
* Albert Camus 

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never. 
* Charles Caleb Colton 

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship. 
* George Eliot 

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. 
* Ralph Waldo Emerson 

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. 
* Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The only way to have a friend is to be one. 
* Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; 
prosperity is full of friends. 
* Euripedes 

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. 
* F. Scott Fitzgerald 

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. 
* Thomas Fuller 

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. 
* Elbert Hubbard 

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life. 
* Lee Iacocca 

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. 
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld 

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. 
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld 

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. 
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. 
* W. Somerset Maugham 

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. 
* W. Somerset Maugham 

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. 
* Michel de Montaigne 

Love demands infinitely less than friendship. 
* George Jean Nathan 

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. 
* Friedrich Nietzsche 

Hold a true friend with both your hands. 
* Nigerian Proverb 

To me, fair friend, you never can be old 
For as you were when first your eye I eyed, 
Such seems your beauty still. 
* William Shakespeare 

Friendship is constant in all other things 
Save in the office and affairs of love. 
* William Shakespeare 

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. 
* Mark Twain 

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. 
* Voltaire 

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. 
* Oscar Wilde 

 

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