“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.”
Thomas Jefferson
Good TimesValue Of Friends
Friendship Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FRIENDSHIP
Friendship Quotes
Read 200 of the best friendship quotes about true friends, loyalty and lasting bonds from Aristotle, Shakespeare, Kahlil Gibran, Emerson and more.
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Jane Austen
ComfortHeartbreak
“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts, nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.”
Dinah Craik
TrustComfort
“Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger.”
Aesop
LoyaltyFake Friends
“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.”
Aesop
Hard TimesTrue Friends
“Birds of a feather flock together.”
Aesop
Choosing FriendsWisdom
“A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
TreasureValue Of Friends
“And let your best be for your friend.”
Kahlil Gibran
GivingCare
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?”
Robert Burns
Old FriendsMemories
“It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.”
Francis Bacon
LonelinessTrue Friends
“No receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend.”
Francis Bacon
HeartTrust
“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
Confucius
Choosing FriendsWisdom
“I daily examine myself on three points; whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere.”
Confucius
HonestySelf-Reflection
“Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.”
Confucius
AdviceWisdom
“I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dream'd that was the new city of Friends.”
Walt Whitman
StrengthUnity
“They seem to take the sun out of the world who take friendship out of life.”
Cicero
LifeValue Of Friends
“A true friend is, as it were, a second self.”
Cicero
Best FriendBond
“Regard him as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”
Seneca
TrustLoyalty
“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes even injures.”
Seneca
LoveWisdom
“In poverty and in other misfortunes men think friends are the only refuge. It helps the young, too, to keep from error; it aids older people by ministering to their needs.”
Aristotle
SupportHard Times
“Friends share all things.”
Pythagoras
SharingBond
“For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people.”
The Bible (Ruth 1:16)
LoyaltyDevotion
“The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”
The Bible (1 Samuel 18:1)
Best FriendSoul
“Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:10)
Old FriendsLoyalty
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
The Bible (Proverbs 13:20)
Choosing FriendsWisdom