Quotes About Friendship

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.

People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

True friendship is a promise you keep forever.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.