Famous Friendship Quotes

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

"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

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

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"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

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

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"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

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"A friend to all is a friend to none"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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

George Santayana, Philosopher

"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

"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

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

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"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

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

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"Friends are born, not made"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"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

"Friendship and money: oil and water"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

"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

"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

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

Samuel Pepys, Writer

"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

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand"

Henri Nouwen, Clergyman

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely"

Pam Brown, Poet

"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

"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

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

Margaret Walker, Poet

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

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

Leo Buscaglia, Author

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

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"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

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