Friendship Sayings and Quotes (2)
Sayings about Friendship
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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