Friendship Quotes


A sudden thought strikes me; Let us swear an eternal friendship.
John Hookham Frere (1769-1846) British diplomat, author 

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of show growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732-1799) American president

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it could only be explained by answering: “Because it was him; because it was me.”
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist.

Men seem to kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it as glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (b.1906) American author.

Oh, the pious friendship of the female sex!
William Congreve (1670-1729) English dramatist

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss.

I made courtiers; I never pretended to make friends, said Napoleon…
On a rocky little island he fretted away the last years of his life alone.
Bruch barton.

Friendship are fragile things, and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph S.Bourne

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; the threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; the doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; this door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.
Van Dyke.

No one should ever go a journey with any other than him with whom one walks arm in arm, in the evening, the twilight, and agrees that if either should have a son he shall be named after the other,
Robert Cortes Holliday

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Edvard Grieg.

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
S-Weir Mitchell.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confined, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.He who has made the acquisition of a judicious and sympathizing friend, may be said to have doubled his mental resources.
Robert Hall

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art; let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors, shunning always such as are poor and needy; for if thou givest twenty gifts, and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.
Sir W.Raleigh

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.
Addison

Old friends are best. King james used to call for his old shoes;they were the easiest for his feet.
Selden

Those friends are weak and worthless, that will not use the privilege of friendship in admonishing their friends with freedom and confidence., as well of their errors as of their danger.
Bacon. 

The endearing elegance of female friendship
Dr. Samuel Johnson(1709-1784) English author, lexicographer

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Dr. Samuel Johnson(1709-1784) English author, lexicographer

Friendship is love, without his wings!
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet

Love is only chatter, Friends are all that matter.
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) American humorist

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron(17288-1824) English poet

That’s what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
Charles Bukowski (b.1920) American author.

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