Friendship Quotes - Page 10

• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, Happiness, True Friend

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  True Friend, Real Friends, Adversity

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• There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

  William Penn

  Love, Air, Confusion

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• Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Love, Relationship, Long

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• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

  Chanakya

  Education, Self, Bitterness

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• Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Happiness, Future, Literature

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 129

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• Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Medicine, Goodness, Fountain

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• Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Form, Enjoy

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• A friend is a second self.

  Aristotle

  Life, Self, Love At First Sight

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.335

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The best time to make friends is
  before you need them.

  Ethel Barrymore

  True Friend, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

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• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  E. W. Howe

  Relationship, Patience, True Friend

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• If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

  Mary Browne

  Inspirational, Real Friends, Acceptance

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• Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

  Dean Koontz

  Real Friends, World, Next

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.234, Bantam

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• Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Smile, Attitude

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• When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

  Ben E. King

  Dark, Moon, Night

  "Song: "Stand By Me" ("Don't Play That Song!")". 1962.

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  You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Judging, Enemy

  Lord Jim (1900) ch. 34

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• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Sarcastic, Passion

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Memories, Passion

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Spiritual, Fear, Real Friends

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• My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Jobs, Important, Purpose

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

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• The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Motivational, Finest

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.441, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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