Friendship Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.”
– Cicero (106 Bc – 43 Bc), De Amicitia

“Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
– Cicero (106 Bc – 43 Bc), On Friendship, 44 B.C.

“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”
– Colette (1873 – 1954), The Pure And The Impure, 1932

“Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.”
– Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
– Confucius (551 Bc – 479 Bc), The Confucian Analects

“The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.”
– Crowell

“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.”
– Czech Proverb

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.”
– Dalai Lama

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
– Dale Carnegie

“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.”
– Dame Edna Everage

“I’ll lean on you and you lean on me and we’ll be okay.”
– Dave Matthews Band

“Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”
– David Nicholls, One Day, 2010

“You’re supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.”
– David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008

“Volunteers are caring friends”
– Don Williams

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.”
– Doug Larson

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.”
– Dumas The Younger

“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
– E. M. Forster

“A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.”
– Ecclesiasticus 6:14

“It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are like everything else a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.”
– Edvard Grieg

“Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
– Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elisabeth Foley

“My friends are my estate.”
– Emily Dickinson

“In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in twenty.”
– English Proverb

“It is not so much our friend’s help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Erich Segal

“Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.”
– Euripides

“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”
– Fr. Jerome Cummings

“What is a Friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.”
– Frank Crane

“Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.”
– Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

“Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.”
– Fuller

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