Quotes About Friendship

The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Friends and wine should be old.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine.

There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.

None is so rich as to throw away a friend.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Friends are a second existence.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."