quotations about friendship
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?
NICHOLAS GRIMOALD
"A Friend", The Book of Friendship
Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.
DEAN KOONTZ
Velocity
Secrecy is the cement of friendship.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
As we travel life's long road
We meet and make new friends.
And even though the friends may go
The friendship never ends.
KUNAL BADLANI
"Forever Friends", On Friendship: A Book for Teenagers
More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Table-Talk
Friendship is Love without his wings!
LORD BYRON
Hours of Idleness
What is Friendship? Something deep
That the heart can spend and keep:
Wealth that greatens while we give,
Praise that heartens us to live.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"The Talisman"
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Is there so little gall poured into our cup, that we must need help to drink that of our neighbor?
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Mrs. Cosway, Oct. 12, 1786
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies--neighbors are kind enough for that--but to do the like office to our spirits.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Friendship
A hungry cat will not acknowledge the friendship of a rat.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Friends are born, not made.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
ANAIS NIN
diary entry, March 1937
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
ANDRé MAUROIS
An Art of Living
I'm thinking we should cross the line
Let's ruin the friendship, let's ruin the friendship
Do all the things on our mind
DEMI LOVATO
"Ruin the Friendship"
Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
You need to handle your friends with more diplomacy than you do your enemies.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
I just got to tell you what the world needs now
Is love and understanding get aboard the friendship train
Everybody shake a hand make a friend now
Listen to us now, we're doing our thing
On the friendship train
GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS
"Friendship Train"
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet