Friendship Quotes

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thou...

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. (Francis Bacon)

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where the...

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which p...

Little minds need to practice despotism to relieve their nerves, just as great souls thirst for equality in fr...

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling...

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; w...

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is...

Friendship is a crystal lake, sheltered from ruffling winds, wherein he who looks may see his better nature....

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. (Ro...

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our...

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you...

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God. (Sir Thomas Browne)

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. (Merry Browne)

Friendship is love without his wings. (Lord Byron)

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. (Ma...

For friendship adds a brighter radiance to prosperity and lessens the burden of adversity by dividing and shar...

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer...

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man giv...

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it...

He who looks upon a true friend, looks, as it were, upon a sort of image of himself. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)