Friendship Quotes

Friends have all things in common.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep, for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

No human relation gives one possession in another...every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

My friends are my estate.

Those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.