Friendship quotes

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

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

Charlotte Bronte

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.

Brett Butler's unnamed friend

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Caleb Colton

Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.

Maria Callas

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Henry Brooks Adams

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

George Santayana

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller

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

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Pierre Charron

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Franklin P. Jones

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Randy K. Milholland

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West