Friendship Quotes

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Thomas Fuller

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.

C.S. Lewis

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

Lincoln Chafee

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Thomas Fuller

Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Ambrose Bierce

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

Ernie Banks

Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!

Stephen Richards

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Francis Bacon

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

Christopher Hitchens

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

William Shakespeare

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Ernest Hemingway