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Quotes About Friendship

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
~ Spike Milligan
Friends are thieves of time.
~ Francis Bacon
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
~ Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
~ Blaise Pascal
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
~ Richard Bach
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
~ Lord Byron
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
~ William Butler Yeats
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
~ Marcus Garvey
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
~ Unknown
My friends are my estate.
~ Emily Dickinson
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
~ George W Bush
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
~ Saint Augustine
Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
~ Michael Jackson
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
~ Dale Carnegie
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
~ Confucius
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
~ Jim Morrison
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche