Quotes about Friendship

It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.