“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”
The Bible (Sirach 6:16)
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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.
“Nothing doth countervail a faithful friend, and his excellency is invaluable.”
The Bible (Sirach 6:15)
TreasureLoyalty
“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
William Shakespeare
True FriendsLoyalty
“A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse.”
William Shakespeare
Value Of FriendsFunny
“Keep thy friend under thy own life's key.”
William Shakespeare
TrustCare
“Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.”
William Shakespeare
LoveLoyalty
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SoulWonder
“I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
FunnyBooks
“A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TimeValue Of Friends
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
Henry David Thoreau
DistanceLong Distance Friends
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
Mark Twain
FunnyGossip
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
Oscar Wilde
SuccessTrue Friends
“Fish and visitors stink in three days.”
Benjamin Franklin
FunnyVisits
“Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.”
Benjamin Franklin
RespectBalance
“Friendship, peculiar boon of heav'n, the noble mind's delight and pride.”
Samuel Johnson
BlessingJoy
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
George Washington
Choosing FriendsTrust
“A sure friend is known in unsure times.”
Ennius
Hard TimesTrue Friends
“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Lord Byron
LoveBond
“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
PurposeLove
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
L. M. Montgomery
DistanceBond
“A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.”
L. M. Montgomery
Best FriendTrust
“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
William Penn
True FriendsLoyalty
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides
LoyaltyValue Of Friends
“Friends, though absent, are still present.”
Cicero
DistanceBond
“We have been friends together, in sunshine and in shade.”
Caroline Norton
Old FriendsMemories