Friendship Quotes

“Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The language of Friendship is not words but meanings.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Friends cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

Henry David Thoreau

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”

Mark Twain

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

Oscar Wilde

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

Benjamin Franklin

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

Benjamin Franklin

“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”

Benjamin Franklin

“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”

Samuel Johnson

“It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halfs.”

Francis Bacon

“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

Francis Bacon

“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.”

Michel de Montaigne

“Do not insult your friend by lending him merits from your own pocket.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“Your friend is your needs answered.”

Kahlil Gibran

“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.”

Kahlil Gibran

“And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.”

Kahlil Gibran

“And when you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”

Kahlil Gibran

“My friends are my estate.”

Emily Dickinson

“And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne.”

Robert Burns

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

Abraham Lincoln

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

George Washington