FRIENDSHIP QUOTES

quotations about friendship

Friendship quote

A true friend may be forgiven, if in time of prosperity he seems to forget you; but he is not worth having that neglects you in distress.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.

OPRAH WINFREY

O Magazine, Aug. 2006


Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Essays


A friend is never known till a man have need.

JOHN HEYWOOD

Proverbs


One friend in a life time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams


Have no friends not equal to yourself.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

JACQUES DELILLE

Malheur at Pitié (Canto I)


Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom


Happy is love or friendship when returned--
The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

BION OF SMYRNA

"Friendship"


Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."

C. S. LEWIS

The Four Loves


When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside which is like the cold of space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

HILAIRE BELLOC

The Four Men: A Farrago

Tags: Hilaire Belloc


To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.

MILAN KUNDERA

Identity


What a thing friendship is, world without end!

ROBERT BROWNING

The Flight of the Duchess


I get by with a little help from my friends.

THE BEATLES

With a Little Help from My Friends


There seems to be two kinds of friendship in the world, the false friendship and the true friendship. The first is generally a friendship resting on profit, and the second a friendship resting on merit. The first are your friends because they think it pays them to be friendly, the second are friends because they deem you worthy of their friendship. The first friendship is like a rope of sand which may vanish at any time, the second is like a mighty cable that never can be broken. Give to some men ninety-nine times and they are your dear friends, but refuse them the hundredth and they will hate you for it.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Friendship: A Book of Quotations


The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

MARK TWAIN

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson


Friendship is a sweet attraction of the heart, towards the merit we esteem, or the perfections we admire; and produces a mutual inclination between two persons, to promote each others interest, knowledge, virtue, and happiness.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

BIBLE

John 15:13


A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start.

MELLIN de SAINT-GELAIS

Oeuvres poétiques