Friendship Quotes

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Thy friendship makes us fresh.

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

I'm down for you, so ride with me.My enemies your enemies,Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.

Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Friendship cant end just because you change your life.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the wayIn this bright future you can't forget your pastSo dry your tears I say.

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.