Quotes About Friendship

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

A friend is a person who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.