Friendship Quotes


Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
- Samuel Johnson


Friendships full of dregs.
- Shakespeare


Friendships renewed demand more care than those which have never been broken.
- La Rochefoucauld


Friendships which are born in misfortune are more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness.
- D'Urfrey


Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding that unforgiveable.
- John D. MacDonald


Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.
- Norman Vincent Peale


Go often to the house of the friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
- Proverb: Scandinavian


God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
- Addison Mizner/Ethel Mumford


Great friendship is never without anxiety.
- Marquise De Sevigne


Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- Bible: John


Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
- James Howell.


He who is a friend, loves; he who loves is not therefore always a friend. So friendship profits always, but love sometimes is hurtful.
- Seneca


Hold a friend with both your hands.
- Proverb: Nigerian


How miserable things seem to be arranged in this world! If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose the, and be doubly pained by the loss.
- Abraham Lincoln


How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
- William Rotsler


However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer.
- La Rochefoucauld


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

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