Quotes about Friendship
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True friends are like diamonds; precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves; found everywhere.
- Anonymous
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
- Samuel Johnson
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
- Joseph Addison
I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.
- Confucius
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.
- JI Packer
I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other
- Erica Jong
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world
- Erica Jong
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.
- William Hazlitt