FRIENDSHIP QUOTES
quotations about friendship
If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.
OPRAH WINFREY
O Magazine, Aug. 2006
A true friend may be forgiven, if in time of prosperity he seems to forget you; but he is not worth having that neglects you in distress.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays
A friend is never known till a man have need.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
I get by with a little help from my friends.
THE BEATLES
With a Little Help from My Friends
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE
Malheur at Pitié (Canto I)
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."
C. S. LEWIS
The Four Loves
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Friendship: A Book of Quotations
One friend in a life time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside which is like the cold of space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
HILAIRE BELLOC
The Four Men: A Farrago
What a thing friendship is, world without end!
ROBERT BROWNING
The Flight of the Duchess
Happy is love or friendship when returned--
The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.
BION OF SMYRNA
"Friendship"
Friendship is a sweet attraction of the heart, towards the merit we esteem, or the perfections we admire; and produces a mutual inclination between two persons, to promote each others interest, knowledge, virtue, and happiness.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.
MILAN KUNDERA
Identity
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
MARK TWAIN
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start.
MELLIN de SAINT-GELAIS
Oeuvres poétiques
There seems to be two kinds of friendship in the world, the false friendship and the true friendship. The first is generally a friendship resting on profit, and the second a friendship resting on merit. The first are your friends because they think it pays them to be friendly, the second are friends because they deem you worthy of their friendship. The first friendship is like a rope of sand which may vanish at any time, the second is like a mighty cable that never can be broken. Give to some men ninety-nine times and they are your dear friends, but refuse them the hundredth and they will hate you for it.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
BIBLE
John 15:13