Friendship Sayings and Quotes (3)
Sayings about Friendship
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Related topics: Relationship
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
I have to really like you to share my food with you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
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