Quotes About Friendship

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new