A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
14 quotes from Jim Morrison
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
21 more quotes from Jane Austen
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
46 more thoughts from George Santayana
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
21 wisdom & wit from Jane Austen
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
21 more quotes from Jane Austen
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
10 other wisdom & wit from Marlene Dietrich
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
2 other quotes from Eleanor Robson Belmont
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
46 quotes from George Santayana
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
12 quotes from Mao Zedong
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
3 sayings from Black Kettle
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
14 other quotes from Stendhal
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
67 sayings from Francis Bacon
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
3 other views from Augustine Birrell
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
14 wisdom & wit from Charles de Montesquieu
Friendship is Love without his wings!
36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
30 wisdom & wit from Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
3 wisdom & wit from William Wycherley
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
17 sayings from Plutarch
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
9 other quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
56 other quotes from Khalil Gibran
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
4 quotes from Charles Peguy
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
19 other thoughts from Anton Chekhov
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
12 thoughts from Simone de Beauvoir
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
30 other wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
3 wisdom & wit from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
30 thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
29 other thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham
A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.
5 sayings from Thomas More
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
8 other quotes from Charles Darwin
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
30 other wisdom & wit from George Washington
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
31 other sayings from Gertrude Stein
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
21 more sayings from Anais Nin
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
26 quotes from Charles Dickens
Friends are born, not made.
22 other quotes from Henry Adams
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
30 more quotes from George Washington
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
5 other wisdom & wit from Charles Eastman
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
23 other thoughts from Thomas A. Edison
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
32 other quotes from Michel de Montaigne
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
12 views from George Jean Nathan
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
4 sayings from Samuel Pepys
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
25 quotes from Simone Weil
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
30 sayings from George Washington
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
21 more quotes from Anais Nin
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
17 other sayings from Leo Buscaglia
Love is a friendship set to music.
18 quotes from Joseph Campbell
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
3 wisdom & wit from Walter Winchell
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
2 quotes from Pietro Aretino
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
5 quotes from Charlotte Bronte
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
12 more sayings from George Herbert
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
18 wisdom & wit from Washington Irving
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
38 other quotes from William Hazlitt
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.
7 thoughts from Thomas Moore
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
7 sayings from Thomas Moore
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
8 quotes from Joseph Brodsky
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
35 thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
30 other quotes from Walt Whitman
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
23 quotes from E. W. Howe
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
23 quotes from E. W. Howe
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
53 more sayings from Honore de Balzac
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
3 thoughts from Clifton Paul Fadiman
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
6 other sayings from Francis Quarles
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
16 quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
16 quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
24 more quotes from Joseph Addison
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
23 more quotes from E. W. Howe
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
6 quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
5 more quotes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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.
23 more sayings from E. W. Howe
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
59 more sayings from Elbert Hubbard
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
21 thoughts from Mignon McLaughlin
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
6 wisdom & wit from Charles Kingsley
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.
7 more quotes from Sydney Smith
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
59 other sayings from Elbert Hubbard
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
31 views from Helen Keller
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
59 more wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
28 more thoughts from William Butler Yeats
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
31 other quotes from Helen Keller
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
10 other thoughts from John D. Rockefeller
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
3 other wisdom & wit from Margaret Walker
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
117 other views from Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
2 more sayings from Max Jacob
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
15 quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
13 wisdom & wit from Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
14 other sayings from Edward Young
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
18 quotes from Marcel Proust
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
32 quotes from Henry Ford
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
15 views from Jean de La Fontaine
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
3 other views from Petrarch
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
10 more sayings from Arthur Ashe
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
13 quotes from Herman Melville
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
2 other thoughts from Eustace Budgell
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
3 other quotes from Theophile Gautier
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
2 other quotes from Eustace Budgell
Love and friendship exclude each other.
26 views from Jean de la Bruyere
Love is friendship set on fire.
8 wisdom & wit from Jeremy Taylor
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
3 sayings from Robert Southey
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
8 more quotes from Jeremy Taylor
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
26 wisdom & wit from Jean de la Bruyere
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
5 more thoughts from Robert Staughton Lynd
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
6 other sayings from Emil Zatopek
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
90 other wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
90 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
90 other thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
63 views from Samuel Johnson
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.
21 quotes from Laurence J. Peter
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Friendship and money: oil and water.
3 quotes from Mario Puzo
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
30 other sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
3 more sayings from Katherine Mansfield
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
24 more quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
103 more thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
True friends stab you in the front.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
6 sayings from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
25 more wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
8 other quotes from Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
78 quotes from Voltaire
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
6 other views from Johann Kaspar Lavater
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
2 views from Warren G. Harding
Opposition is true friendship.
32 more views from William Blake
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
13 other thoughts from Amos Bronson Alcott
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
8 quotes from Oliver Goldsmith
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
32 more wisdom & wit from William Blake