Friendship Quotes

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

Mark Twain

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”

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

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

Epicurus

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

Cicero

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

Seneca

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

Publilius Syrus

“While you are fortunate you will have many friends; when the times are clouded, you will be alone.”

Ovid

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

Michel de Montaigne

“Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.”

Francis Bacon

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?”

Robert Burns

“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

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

Jane Austen

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry