Friendship Quotes

• A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. James Boswell
• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras
• “Friends show their love in times of trouble.” Euripides
• “It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends” – Euripides.
• “Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.” Euripides
• “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” Euripides
• “Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.” Euripides
• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Thomas Aquinan.
• “Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.” Socrates.
• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. Madame de Tencin.
• "Every man passes his life in the search after friendship." Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
• 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.
• Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith
• “Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?” Robert Louis Stevenson.
• We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson.
• So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson.
• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -Aristotle
• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus
• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. -Euripides
• The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot
• One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. -Leo Tolstoy
• Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant. - Unknown
• Friends are God's way of taking care of us. - Unknown
• The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them. - John 15:13
• A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Unknown
• The best mirror is an old friend. - Proverb
• Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
• Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. - Aristotle
• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. - Walt Whitman
• You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence. -Psalms 16: 11
• Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. - Ludwig Van Beethoven
• I believe in angels, the kind Heaven sends. I am surrounded by angels, but I call them my best friends. - Unknown
• Love is friendship set on fire. - Unknown
• A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight. - Unknown
• Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together. - Unknown