Quotes about Friendship
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, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
- Abraham Lincoln
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
- Abraham Lincoln
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
- Aesop
Birds of a feather flock together.
- Aesop
A man is known by the company he keeps.
- Aesop
Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
- Alain de Botton
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
- Alain de Botton
There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.
- Alain de Botton
We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.
- Alain de Botton