Friendship Quotes

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, ’twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments. (William Penn)

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue. (William Penn)

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. (William Penn)

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. (Laurence J. Peter)

Friends have all things in common.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. (Jean Paul Richter)

Many people will walk in and out of your life, But only true friends leave footprints in your heart. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame with an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. (Albert Schweitzer )

No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy. (Saint Ailred of Rievaulx)

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware. (Julian Seton)

Without the desire and ability to create new understandings, a relationship can't grow -- it can only be maintained. (Michael Schrage)

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. (Sidney Smith)

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. (Socrates)

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. (Sophocles)

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. (Robert Southey)

Life without a friend is death without a witness. (Spanish proverb)

No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands. (Arthur H. Stainback)

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. (Robert Lewis Stevenson)

For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. (Robert Lewis Stevenson)

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. (Robert Lewis Stevenson )

Confidence is the only bond of friendship (Publilius Syrus)

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls. (Jeremy Taylor)