Friendship Quotes, Quotations and Sayings - Page 6
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Wonderful Life
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
This is my beloved and this is my friend.
Song of Solomon
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Henry David Thoreau
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
Albert Einstein
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.
Anonymous
Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No road is long with good company.
Turkish Proverb
To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
Norman Douglas
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasgow
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born.
Donna A. Favors
If friends were flowers, I’d pick you
Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
Toni Morrison
“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.
Anonymous
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca
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