Quotes About Friendship

Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.

Love your friend with his fault.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

Treat your fiends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.