“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
“A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
WonderMeaning Of Friendship
“O friend, my bosom said, through thee alone the sky is arched, through thee the rose is red.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
LoveJoy
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Henry David Thoreau
SolitudeCompany
“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
Oscar Wilde
FunnyEnemies
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”
Benjamin Franklin
Fake FriendsHard Times
“Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.”
Benjamin Franklin
LoyaltyGossip
“Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”
Samuel Johnson
New FriendsLife
“Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.”
Samuel Johnson
EqualityWisdom
“Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.”
Francis Bacon
LonelinessHeart
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”
William Blake
FunnyEnemies
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
Jane Austen
LoyaltyDevotion
“I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.”
Thomas Jefferson
Old FriendsLove
“A friendship which makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.”
Joseph Addison
True FriendsWisdom
“If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.”
Thomas Fuller
RareTrue Friends
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
Publilius Syrus
Hard TimesTrue Friends
“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
Publilius Syrus
CautionWisdom
“Friendship either finds or makes equals.”
Publilius Syrus
EqualityBond
“I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks, by the love of comrades.”
Walt Whitman
UnityBrotherhood
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
Oliver Goldsmith
LoveEquality
“A man is known by the company he keeps.”
Aesop
Choosing FriendsCharacter
“He that has many friends, has no friends.”
Aesop
True FriendsWisdom
“I would rather have a good friend than the best cock or quail in the world: I would even go further, and say the best horse or dog.”
Plato
TreasureFunny
“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper - solitude is sweet.”
William Cowper
SolitudeCompany
“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”
Euripides
BlessingWisdom