My Friendship Quotes - Page 2

• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• 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.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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• 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

  Friendship, Cute, Relationship

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.137, Bantam

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 01, 2013

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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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  Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

  Aristotle

  Love, Friendship, Family

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Friendship, Happiness

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• A friend is a gift you give yourself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

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• Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

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• You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

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• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

  Ben Jonson

  Friendship, Positive, Happiness

  'Cynthia's Revels' (1600) act 3, sc. 2

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• It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

  William Penn

  Friendship, True Friend, Adventure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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