Quotes on Friendship

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past. (Dorothy Riera)

• If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.            ~ Winnie the Pooh

• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

• A true friend is one soul in two bodies. ~ Aristotle

• Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle

• A friend is one who takes me for what I am. ~ Henry David Thoreau

• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~ Henry David Thoreau

• Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

• Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.  ~ Randolph S. Bourne

• Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.                 ~ Kenneth Branagh

• 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

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

• 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

• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia

• A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. ~ Samuel Butler

• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. ~ James F. Byrnes

• A friend is, as it were, a second self. ~ Marcus T. Cicero

• True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

• Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; more faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend. ~ Grace Noll Crowell

• A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. ~ Fr. Jerome Cummings

• Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.       ~ Simon Dach

• Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. ~ Anna Cummins

• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day. ~ Dalai Lama

• A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~ Readers Digest

• Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! ~ Charles Alexander Eastman

• Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. ~ George Ebers

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. ~ Epicurus

• ... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.               ~ Douglas Fairbanks

• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog. ~ Miles Franklin

• True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~ David Tyson Gentry

• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.        ~ Ulysses S. Grant

• 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

• The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it. ~ Julie Holz

• To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. ~ Samuel Johnson

• Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job. ~ Erwin T. Randall

• It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. ~ Mary Dixon Thayer

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

• Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure. ~ Source Unknown

• Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time. ~ Source Unknown

• Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Source Unknown

• To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit. ~ Source Unknown

• The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend. ~ Arch Ward

• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. ~ Len Wein

• An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. ~ Oscar Wilde

• Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. ~ Thomas Wilson