Quotes About Companionship

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first

In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.

Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forget me: I'm only a friend. Though I'll be with you, until the end.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?