Quotes about Friendship
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
- Mother Teresa
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
- Samuel Beckett
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
- CS Lewis
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
- Aristotle
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
- Samuel Beckett
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
- Charles Dickens
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
- Cicero
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- Joseph Addison
Make friendship a fine art.
- John Wooden
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau