FRIENDSHIP QUOTES V

quotations about friendship

Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Essays


Friendship is not an obsolete sentiment. It is as true now as in Aristotle's time that no one would care to live without friends, though he had all other good things. It is still necessary to our life in its largest sense.

HUGH B. BLACK

Friendship


The Friend does not count his Friends on his fingers; they are not numerable.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Friendship


For there is no man, that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral


Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

The Son of a Servant


This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

ELIE WIESEL

From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences


Friendship extends about four city blocks.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Lonesome creates diseases that friendship cures.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure.

JOSEPH ADDISON

Cato


Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

DONALD TRUMP

Playboy, Mar. 1990


Friendships are a reflection of who you are and what you need. While we are constantly evolving, there comes a time when we know what the make-and-breaks are in friendship. And once you know what your deal breakers are, naturally you will begin to seek out friendships that fit. Unfortunately, we also know that some friendships will get left behind.

SA'IYDA SHABAZZ

"This Is Why Some Friendships End--And Others Last", Scary Mommy, February 19, 2019


While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

The Friendship of Christ


Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Friendship", Essays


Friendship has been called the sweetener of life. It is a compound made up of truth and kindness, prudence and piety.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth


The language of Friendship is not words but meanings.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Friendship


It is never easier to forget friends than when we imagine they have forgotten us--friendship, like love, requires reciprocal assurance of continuity.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Alexander Hamilton, Sep. 1, 1796