Friendship Quotes

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.