Best Quotes About Friendship From Famous People

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A Friend In Power Is A Friend Lost.

 

-Henry Adams

 

Quotes About Lost Friend In Power By Henry Adams
Quotes About Lost Friend In Power By Henry Adams

Friendship Is One Mind In Two Bodies.

 

-Mencius

Quotes By Mencius On True Friendship
Quotes By Mencius On True Friendship

A Friend Is, As It Were, A Second Self.

 

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best Friendship Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero
Best Friendship Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship Multiplies The Good Of Life And Divides The Evil.

 

-Baltasar Gracian

Friendship Quotes On Sharing By Baltasar Gracian
Friendship Quotes On Sharing By Baltasar Gracian

Lovers Have A Right To Betray You… Friends Don’t.

 

-Judy Holliday

Friendship Quotes On Truthfulness Of Friends
Friendship Quotes On Truthfulness Of Friends

But Friendship Is The Breathing Rose, With Sweets In Every Fold.

 

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Quotes Describe Friendship As Rose By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Quotes Describe Friendship As Rose By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Lay This Unto Your Breast: Old Friends, Like Old Swords, Still Are Trusted Best.

 

-John Webster

Friendship Quotes On Old Friendship By John Webster
Friendship Quotes On Old Friendship By John Webster

My Friends Are My Estate.

 

-Emily Dickinson

Quotes Describe Friendship As Wealth By Emily Dickinson
Quotes Describe Friendship As Wealth By Emily Dickinson

Friends Are Born, Not Made.

 

-Henry Adams

True Friendship Quotes by Henry Adams
True Friendship Quotes by Henry Adams

 

True Friendship Can Afford True Knowledge. It Does Not Depend On Darkness And Ignorance.

 

-Henry David Thoreau

 

Quotes About True Friendship By Henry David Thoreau
Quotes About True Friendship By Henry David Thoreau

Friendship Needs No Words – It Is Solitude Delivered From The Anguish Of Loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjo

Sweet Is The Memory Of Distant Friends! Like The Mellow Rays Of The Departing Sun, It Falls Tenderly, Yet Sadly, On The Heart.
Washington Irving

My Definition Of A Friend Is Somebody Who Adores You Even Though They Know The Things You’re Most Ashamed Of.
Jodie Foster

You Can Always Tell A Real Friend: When You’ve Made A Fool Of Yourself He Doesn’t Feel You’ve Done A Permanent Job.
Laurence J. Peter
If Instead Of A Gem, Or Even A Flower, We Should Cast The Gift Of A Loving Thought Into The Heart Of A Friend, That Would Be Giving As The Angels Give.
George Macdonald

We Call That Person Who Has Lost His Father, An Orphan; And A Widower That Man Who Has Lost His Wife. But That Man Who Has Known The Immense Unhappiness Of Losing A Friend, By What Name Do We Call Him? Here Every Language Is Silent And Holds Its Peace In Impotence.
Joseph Roux

Friends And Good Manners Will Carry You Where Money Won’t Go.
Margaret Walker

It Is More Shameful To Distrust Our Friends Than To Be Deceived By Them.
Confucius

Let There Be No Purpose In Friendship Save The Deepening Of The Spirit.
Khalil Gibran

It Seems To Me That Trying To Live Without Friends Is Like Milking A Bear To Get Cream For Your Morning Coffee. It Is A Whole Lot Of Trouble, And Then Not Worth Much After You Get It.
Zora Neale Hurston

Laughter Is Not At All A Bad Beginning For A Friendship, And It Is Far The Best Ending For One.
Oscar Wilde

If You Have One True Friend You Have More Than Your Share.
Thomas Fuller

Some People Go To Priests; Others To Poetry; I To My Friends.
Virginia Woolf

Never Make Friends With People Who Are Above Or Below You In Status. Such Friendships Will Never Give You Any Happiness.
Chanakya

Our Friends Interpret The World And Ourselves To Us, If We Take Them Tenderly And Truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Wishing To Be Friends Is Quick Work, But Friendship Is A Slow Ripening Fruit.
Aristotle

Friendship Is A Difficult, Dangerous Job. It Is Also (Though We Rarely Admit It) Extremely Exhausting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Great Is The Victory, But The Friendship Of All Is Greater.
Emil Zatopek

I Definitely Have Guys That I’m Friends With That I Have A Crush On, And You Don’t Want To Ruin The Friendship.
Miranda Cosgrove

I Am Deeply Spiritual; I Revel In Those Things That Make For Good – The Things That We Can Do To Shed A Little Light, To Help Place An Oft-Dissonant Universe Back In Tune With Itself… Long Live Art, Long Live Friendship, Long Live The Joy Of Life!
Jessye Norman

I Understand By This Passion The Union Of Desire, Friendship, And Tenderness, Which Is Inflamed By A Single Female, Which Prefers Her To The Rest Of Her Sex, And Which Seeks Her Possession As The Supreme Or The Sole Happiness Of Our Being.
Edward Gibbon

I’m Friends With Taylor Swift, And I Am Tired Of People Asking Me Questions About Our Friendship. When I Post A Picture Of Us On Instagram, I’m Posting A Picture Of Me And My Friend.
Sarah Hyland

In Those Early Years In New York When I Was A Stranger In A Big City, It Was The Companionship And Later Friendship Which I Was Offered In The Linnean Society That Was The Most Important Thing In My Life.
Ernst Mayr

Love Is Rarer Than Genius Itself. And Friendship Is Rarer Than Love.
Charles Peguy

The Second One, The Joint Truth And Friendship Commission, Which We Started Now With Indonesia, That Is The One That Has Been Criticized; Its Terms Of Reference Call For Providing Amnesty For Those Who Cooperate In Telling The Truth. It Does Not Lead To Prosecution.
Jose Ramos-Horta

‘Safe Harbor’ Is A State Of Mind… It’s The Place – In Reality Or Metaphor – To Which One Goes In Times Of Trouble Or Worry. It Can Be A Friendship, Marriage, Church, Garden, Beach, Poem, Prayer, Or Song.
Luanne Rice

I Think Friendship Is More Important Than Love, But That Love That Grows Out Of Friendship Is The Very Best Of All.
Jane Green

Friendship Increases In Visiting Friends, But In Visiting Them Seldom.
Francis Bacon

To Like And Dislike The Same Things, This Is What Makes A Solid Friendship.
Sallust

The Best Time To Frame An Answer To The Letters Of A Friend, Is The Moment You Receive Them. Then The Warmth Of Friendship, And The Intelligence Received, Most Forcibly Cooperate.
William Shenstone

Plunderous Is The Palate I Gift To You, Openly I Hug The Universe Of Our Friendship Expanding Its Outer Limit.
Bradley Chicho

The Love That Comes From Friendship Is The Underlying Facet Of A Happy Life.
Chelsea Handler

I Love Life In Spite Of All That Mars It. I Love Friendship, Jokes And Laughter.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Lust And Attraction Are Often A Given In A Romance Novel – I Want To Dig Into The Elements Of True Friendship That Form A Foundation For A Solid, Gonna-Last-Forever Romantic Relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann

A Friend Is A Beloved Mystery; Dearest Always Because He Is Not Ourself, And Has Something In Him Which It Is Impossible For Us To Fathom. If It Were Not So, Friendship Would Lose Its Chief Zest.
Lucy Larcom

Opposition Is True Friendship.
William Blake

Often The Magical Elements In My Books Are Standing In For Elements Of The Real World, The Small And Magical-In-Their-Own-Right Sorts Of Things That We Take For Granted And No Longer Pay Attention To, Like The Bonds Of Friendship That Entwine Our Own Lives With Those Of Other People And Places.
Charles De Lint

What Sweetness Is Left In Life, If You Take Away Friendship? Robbing Life Of Friendship Is Like Robbing The World Of The Sun. A True Friend Is More To Be Esteemed Than Kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fan The Sinking Flame Of Hilarity With The Wing Of Friendship; And Pass The Rosy Wine.
Charles Dickens

Every Friendship Goes Through Ups And Downs. Dysfunctional Patterns Set In; External Situations Cause Internal Friction; You Grow Apart And Then Bounce Back Together.
Mariella Frostrup

I’ve Always Wanted To Be A Mom Because I Want To Give A Kid All Of The Magical Gifts My Mom Gave To Me, Such As Love And Friendship. She And I Had This Incredible Connection That Was So Unbelievable.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

Love Is Friendship Set On Fire.
Jeremy Taylor

Never Explain – Your Friends Do Not Need It And Your Enemies Will Not Believe You Anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

I Don’t Need A Friend Who Changes When I Change And Who Nods When I Nod; My Shadow Does That Much Better.
Plutarch

Men Kick Friendship Around Like A Football, But It Doesn’t Seem To Crack. Women Treat It Like Glass And It Goes To Pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Real Test Of Friendship Is: Can You Literally Do Nothing With The Other Person? Can You Enjoy Those Moments Of Life That Are Utterly Simple?
Eugene Kennedy

A Quarrel Between Friends, When Made Up, Adds A New Tie To Friendship.
Saint Francis De Sales

If It’s Very Painful For You To Criticize Your Friends – You’re Safe In Doing It. But If You Take The Slightest Pleasure In It, That’s The Time To Hold Your Tongue.
Alice Miller

Do I Not Destroy My Enemies When I Make Them My Friends?
Abraham Lincoln

There Is No Friend Like An Old Friend Who Has Shared Our Morning Days, No Greeting Like His Welcome, No Homage Like His Praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

An Insincere And Evil Friend Is More To Be Feared Than A Wild Beast; A Wild Beast May Wound Your Body, But An Evil Friend Will Wound Your Mind.
Unknown

It Is Important To Our Friends To Believe That We Are Unreservedly Frank With Them, And Important To Friendship That We Are Not.
Mignon Mclaughlin

Never Have A Companion That Casts You In The Shade.
Baltasar Gracian

Nothing So Fortifies A Friendship As A Belief On The Part Of One Friend That He Is Superior To The Other.
Honore De Balzac

Many A Friendship, Long, Loyal, And Self-Sacrificing, Rested At First On No Thicker A Foundation Than A Kind Word.
Frederick William Faber

No Person Is Your Friend Who Demands Your Silence, Or Denies Your Right To Grow.
Alice Walker

Many A Person Has Held Close, Throughout Their Entire Lives, Two Friends That Always Remained Strange To One Another, Because One Of Them Attracted By Virtue Of Similarity, The Other By Difference.
Emil Ludwig

Rejoicing In Our Joy, Not Suffering Over Our Suffering, Makes Someone A Friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Mighty Proud I Am That I Am Able To Have A Spare Bed For My Friends.
Samuel Pepys

Instead Of Loving Your Enemies – Treat Your Friends A Little Better.
E. W. Howe

I Have Friends In Overalls Whose Friendship I Would Not Swap For The Favor Of The Kings Of The World.
Thomas A. Edison

I Always Felt That The Great High Privilege, Relief And Comfort Of Friendship Was That One Had To Explain Nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

Friendship Is Held To Be The Severest Test Of Character. It Is Easy, We Think, To Be Loyal To A Family And Clan, Whose Blood Is In Your Own Veins.
Charles Eastman

It Takes A Long Time To Grow An Old Friend.
John Leonard

The Bird A Nest, The Spider A Web, Man Friendship.
William Blake

You Find Out Who Your Real Friends Are When You’re Involved In A Scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor

Be Slow To Fall Into Friendship; But When Thou Art In, Continue Firm And Constant.
Socrates

A Friend May Well Be Reckoned The Masterpiece Of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Aim Is To Create A Happy Society With Genuine Friendship. Friendship Between Tibetan And Chinese Peoples Is Very Essential.
Dalai Lama

Perfect Friendship Is The Friendship Of Men Who Are Good, And Alike In Excellence; For These Wish Well Alike To Each Other Qua Good, And They Are Good In Themselves.
Aristotle

Friendship Often Ends In Love, But Love In Friendship – Never.
Albert Camus

I Made My First White Women Friends In College; They Loved Me And Were Loyal To Our Friendship, But I Understood, As They Did, That They Were White Women And That Whiteness Mattered.
Alice Walker

A Friend Is An Emotional Bond, Just Like Friendship Is A Human Experience.
Simon Sinek

Some People Are Willing To Betray Years Of Friendship Just To Get A Little Bit Of The Spotlight.
Lauren Conrad

No Matter What Message You Are About To Deliver Somewhere, Whether It Is Holding Out A Hand Of Friendship, Or Making Clear That You Disapprove Of Something, Is The Fact That The Person Sitting Across The Table Is A Human Being, So The Goal Is To Always Establish Common Ground.
Madeleine Albright

Love Is A Friendship Set To Music.
Joseph Campbell

Life Is All About The Friendship And The Love And The Music. It Sounds Silly, But It Is. I Want To Have That Experience As Much As I Can As An Adult, Not As A Kid Doing Something That People Are Telling Her She Has To Do. If Anyone Gets In My Way, I’m Going To Get Them Out Of My Way.
Fiona Apple

Friendship Is A Disinterested Commerce Between Equals; Love, An Abject Intercourse Between Tyrants And Slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith

However Rare True Love May Be, It Is Less So Than True Friendship.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Share Your Smile With The World. It’s A Symbol Of Friendship And Peace.
Christie Brinkley

The Rule Of Friendship Means There Should Be Mutual Sympathy Between Them, Each Supplying What The Other Lacks And Trying To Benefit The Other, Always Using Friendly And Sincere Words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship Is Like Money, Easier Made Than Kept.
Samuel Butler

Be True To Yourself. Make Each Day A Masterpiece. Help Others. Drink Deeply From Good Books. Make Friendship A Fine Art. Build A Shelter Against A Rainy Day.
John Wooden

Friendship Is Two-Sided. It Isn’t A Friend Just Because Someone’s Doing Something Nice For You. That’s A Nice Person. There’s Friendship When You Do For Each Other. It’s Like Marriage – It’s Two-Sided.
John Wooden

There Is No Friendship, No Love, Like That Of The Parent For The Child.
Henry Ward Beecher

It Is One Of The Severest Tests Of Friendship To Tell Your Friend His Faults. So To Love A Man That You Cannot Bear To See A Stain Upon Him, And To Speak Painful Truth Through Loving Words, That Is Friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

I Define Friendship As A Bond That Transcends All Barriers. When You Are Ready To Expect Anything And Everything From Friends, Good, Bad Or Ugly… That’s What I Call True Friendship.
Harbhajan Singh

I Have A Loyalty That Runs In My Bloodstream, When I Lock Into Someone Or Something, You Can’t Get Me Away From It Because I Commit That Thoroughly. That’s In Friendship, That’s A Deal, That’s A Commitment. Don’t Give Me Paper – I Can Get The Same Lawyer Who Drew It Up To Break It. But If You Shake My Hand, That’s For Life.
Jerry Lewis

The Two Most Misused Words In The Entire English Vocabulary Are Love And Friendship. A True Friend Would Die For You, So When You Start Trying To Count Them On One Hand, You Don’t Need Any Fingers.
Larry Flynt

Friendship Is A Strong And Habitual Inclination In Two Persons To Promote The Good And Happiness Of One Another.
Eustace Budgell

Love Is The Attempt To Form A Friendship Inspired By Beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Primarily, ‘Black Girl/White Girl’ Is The Story Of Two Very Different, Yet Somehow ‘Fated’ Girls; For Genna, Her ‘Friendship’ With Minette Is The Most Haunting Of Her Life, Though It Is One-Sided And Ends In Tragedy.
Joyce Carol Oates

Even In The Common Affairs Of Life, In Love, Friendship, And Marriage, How Little Security Have We When We Trust Our Happiness In The Hands Of Others!
William Hazlitt

To Be Poor Does Not Mean You Lack The Means To Extend Charity To Another. You May Lack Money Or Food, But You Have The Gift Of Friendship To Overwhelm The Loneliness That Grips The Lives Of So Many.
Stanley Hauerwas