Friendship Quotes

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“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ”
– Buddha

“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.”
– Francis Bacon

“There’s nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.”
– Diana Dors

“These are called the pious frauds of friendship.”
– Henry Fielding

“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
– William Yeats

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade.”
– William Shakespeare

“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.”
– Cicero

“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.”
– William Blake

“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
– Valerie Lombardo

“To gather with God‘s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
– Martin Luther

“To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.”
– Samuel Johnson

“To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.”
– Sallust

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Brandi Snyder

“True friendship is like a rose: we don’t realize its beauty until it fades.”
– Evelyn Loeb

“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. ”
– Jean de la Bruyère

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller

“We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.”
– Caroline Sheridan Norton

“What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
– Frank Crane

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
– François de La Rochefoucauld

“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.”
– Helen Keller

“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

“You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.”
– Chinese Proverb

“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

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves–and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we’re okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.”
– Judith Viorst

“Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots.”
– George Santayana

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity.”
– Khalil Gibran

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