Famous Friendship Quotes

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

"Friends are born, not made"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away"

Bil Keane, Cartoonist

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"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"

Buddha, Leader

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence"

George Washington, President

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"A friend to all is a friend to none"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"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, Writer

"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, Writer

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies"

Mencius, Philosopher

"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, Novelist

"Friendship and money: oil and water"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it"

Edward W. Howe

"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go"

Margaret Walker, Poet

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them"

Francesco Guicciardini, Historian

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of"

Sarah Orne Jewett, Author

"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, Clergyman

"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity"

Robert Hall, Clergyman

"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends"

Samuel Pepys, Writer

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