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Quotations on Friendship
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The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,
And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,
For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent,
And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent. ~ Unknown
Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ~ Unknown
My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. ~ Unknown
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead. ~ Unknown
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. ~ Unknown
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice. ~ Unknown
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends. ~ William Butler Yeats
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia. ~ William James
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
~ Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. ~ Oscar Wilde
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots. ~ George Santayana
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. ~ Thomas Jefferson
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ~ George Washington
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. ~ George Eliot
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ~ Pearl S. Buck
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~ Virginia Woolf
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~ Henry Ford
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ~ Jean de La Bruyčre
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. ~ William Blake
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~ William Blake
The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends. ~ Gerald Ford
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. ~ Samuel Johnson
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. ~ John Burroughs
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Golda Meir
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. ~ Joseph Addison
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. ~ Charlotte Brontė
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. ~ Charles Dudley Warner
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. ~ Wilson Mizner
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. ~ David Grayson
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. ~ Ed Howe
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. ~ Austin O'Malley
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. ~ Austin O'Malley
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ~ E.M. Forster
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends, but there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. ~ Ani DiFranco
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