Friendship Quotes

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

A friend is never an imposition.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -"Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.Perfect love cannot be without equality.A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.We are all alike, on the inside.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Friendship is communion.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Every house where love abidesAnd friendship is a guest,Is surely home, and home sweet homeFor there the heart can rest.

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his earA stranger to thy thoughts.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

Keep thy friendUnder thy own life's key.

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.