Famous Friendship Quotes

Quotes About Friendship From Many Perspectives

These famous friendship quotes were gleaned from the writings and statements of poets, prophets, politicians and patriots.

The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ~D.H. Lawrence

Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ~Epicurus

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake

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

'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~Benjamin Franklin

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison
No man is useless while he has a friend. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. ~ Lee Iacocca

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. ~ Albert Schweitzer

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~ Dale Carnegie

There is no hope of joy except in human relations. ~ Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. ~ Woodrow Wilson

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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