“To me, fair friend, you never can be old.”
William Shakespeare
Old FriendsLove
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.
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
William Shakespeare
WisdomTrust
“Happy is the house that shelters a friend!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HospitalityJoy
“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choosing FriendsBond
“Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TimeCare
“Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SoulDistance
“Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize.”
Henry David Thoreau
JoyBond
“What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?”
Oscar Wilde
HonestyTrust
“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
Benjamin Franklin
Choosing FriendsFunny
“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
Benjamin Franklin
TrustPromises
“The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.”
Samuel Johnson
CareDrifting Apart
“A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart.”
Francis Bacon
HeartComfort
“Friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.”
Francis Bacon
AdviceClarity
“Our souls mixed and worked themselves into one piece, with so universal a mixture, that there is no more sign of the seam by which they were first conjoined.”
Michel de Montaigne
Best FriendSoul
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
TrustLoyalty
“We two boys together clinging, one the other never leaving.”
Walt Whitman
Best FriendLoyalty
“Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life! and solder of society!”
Robert Blair
SoulBond
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Jane Austen
FunnyMoney
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
George Eliot
PetsFunny
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
George Washington
Choosing FriendsCharacter
“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.”
Thomas Jefferson
Old FriendsTime
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
Voltaire
SoulFunny
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
Socrates
LoyaltyChoosing Friends
“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”
Henry Adams
True FriendsRare
“He makes no friend who never made a foe.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
CourageHonesty