Quotes About Friendship

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

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!

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.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

A good friend can shield you from the storm

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first- naming for effect makes me cringe.