Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

friendship

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. 6 quotes from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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. 52 views from Albert Camus

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities. 25 other quotes from C. S. Lewis

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. 8 other quotes from Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. 78 sayings from Voltaire

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. 52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. 39 thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. 6 quotes from Johann Kaspar Lavater

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. 2 quotes from Warren G. Harding

Opposition is true friendship. 32 quotes from William Blake

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. 13 sayings from Amos Bronson Alcott

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. 8 quotes from Oliver Goldsmith

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. 32 more quotes from William Blake

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. 14 thoughts from Jim Morrison

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. 21 quotes from Jane Austen

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots. 46 sayings from George Santayana

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. 21 wisdom & wit from Jane Austen

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. 68 more sayings from Samuel Butler

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. 21 views from Jane Austen

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. 10 more thoughts from Marlene Dietrich

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets. 2 wisdom & wit from Eleanor Robson Belmont

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. 46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. 12 quotes from Mao Zedong

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship. 3 thoughts from Black Kettle

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. 14 quotes from Stendhal

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. 3 quotes from Augustine Birrell

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. 56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. 14 other views from Charles de Montesquieu

Friendship is Love without his wings! 36 other wisdom & wit from Lord Byron

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. 20 more views from Thomas Aquinas

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. 36 views from Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. 30 thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. 30 more views from Charles Caleb Colton

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. 3 other wisdom & wit from William Wycherley

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better. 17 sayings from Plutarch

If you have one true friend you have more than your share. 45 other quotes from Thomas Fuller

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. 9 views from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. 56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. 4 quotes from Charles Peguy

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. 19 other wisdom & wit from Anton Chekhov

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. 20 other quotes from Thomas Aquinas

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. 12 other sayings from Simone de Beauvoir

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. 30 sayings from Virginia Woolf

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. 3 other quotes from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. 45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. 20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. 30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. 29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady. 5 more wisdom & wit from Thomas More

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. 8 quotes from Charles Darwin

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? 47 wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. 30 other quotes from George Washington

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. 31 wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. 21 sayings from Anais Nin

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine. 26 thoughts from Charles Dickens

Friends are born, not made. 22 quotes from Henry Adams

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. 30 other quotes from George Washington

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. 5 quotes from Charles Eastman

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. 23 other quotes from Thomas A. Edison

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. 32 more quotes from Michel de Montaigne

Love demands infinitely less than friendship. 12 quotes from George Jean Nathan

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. 4 thoughts from Samuel Pepys

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. 10 quotes from Charles Lamb

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. 25 wisdom & wit from Simone Weil

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. 30 other quotes from George Washington

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? 21 sayings from Anais Nin

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. 17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Love is a friendship set to music. 18 more thoughts from Joseph Campbell

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. 3 more views from Walter Winchell

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. 2 more sayings from Pietro Aretino

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. 5 more sayings from Charlotte Bronte

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. 70 more views from Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. 12 quotes from George Herbert

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. 18 more sayings from Washington Irving

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. 38 views from William Hazlitt

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. 38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady. 7 wisdom & wit from Thomas Moore

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Came but for friendship, and took away love. 7 more quotes from Thomas Moore

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. 8 sayings from Joseph Brodsky

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. 35 more views from Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. 135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. 30 more wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. 23 views from E. W. Howe

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. 23 thoughts from E. W. Howe

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. 53 wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. 3 thoughts from Clifton Paul Fadiman

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. 6 thoughts from Francis Quarles

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. 16 more quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. 16 other sayings from Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. 24 more sayings from Joseph Addison

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. 23 more quotes from E. W. Howe

The only way to have a friend is to be one. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. 6 quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. 5 wisdom & wit from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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. 23 quotes from E. W. Howe

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. 59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. 21 other quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. 6 views from Charles Kingsley

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. 58 other wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. 7 more views from Sydney Smith

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. 59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. 31 more views from Helen Keller

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. 59 more thoughts from Elbert Hubbard

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. 28 wisdom & wit from William Butler Yeats

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. 31 thoughts from Helen Keller

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. 10 wisdom & wit from John D. Rockefeller

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. 117 more views from Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. 3 quotes from Margaret Walker

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. 117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. 2 quotes from Max Jacob

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. 15 views from Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. 13 quotes from Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. 14 quotes from Edward Young

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. 18 more thoughts from Marcel Proust

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. 32 other views from Henry Ford

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. 15 more quotes from Jean de La Fontaine

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. 3 views from Petrarch

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. 10 quotes from Arthur Ashe

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. 13 more wisdom & wit from Herman Melville

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. 2 quotes from Eustace Budgell

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. 3 quotes from Theophile Gautier

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. 2 thoughts from Eustace Budgell

Love and friendship exclude each other. 26 wisdom & wit from Jean de la Bruyere

Love is friendship set on fire. 8 quotes from Jeremy Taylor

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. 3 thoughts from Robert Southey

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. 8 thoughts from Jeremy Taylor

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker. 26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. 90 other sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. 5 thoughts from Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. 63 more thoughts from Samuel Johnson

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater. 6 more sayings from Emil Zatopek

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. 90 more wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

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. 21 other views from Laurence J. Peter

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him. 100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. 100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde

Friendship and money: oil and water. 3 wisdom & wit from Mario Puzo

Friendship is a sheltering tree. 24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. 30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. 3 views from Katherine Mansfield

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. 100 other views from Oscar Wilde

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree. 24 more quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. 103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

True friends stab you in the front. 100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde