Quotes about Friendship
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
- Abraham Lincoln
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
- AA Milne
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
- Cicero
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
- Cicero
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
- Publilius Syrus
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
- Thomas Monson
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
- CS Lewis
Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
- Aristotle
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
- Anne Lamott
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt