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Friendship56 quotes
One soul dwelling in two bodies. — AristotleLouie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. — Rick Blaine · 1942Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BCIf thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. — Epictetus · 135The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946All 56 quotes →Friends16 quotes
One soul dwelling in two bodies. — AristotleWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BCRemember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? — The Writer · 1986Be slow in chusing a Friend, be slower in changing. — Benjamin Franklin · 1735She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison · 1987All 16 quotes →Value of friendship9 quotes
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BCBubba was my best good friend and even I know that ain’t something you can find just around the corner. — Forrest Gump · 1994A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. — St. Jerome · 374It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1838Friendship is a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1828If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson · 1784All 9 quotes →Nature of friendship8 quotes
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness: the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone. — David Whyte · 2020She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison · 1987To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. — Catiline · 50 BCFriendship is a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1828I always thought we'd be friends forever. — Kirby Keger · 1985Generosity is the essence of friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1888All 8 quotes →Connecting with others4 quotes
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me." — Michel de Montaigne · 1580And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally! — Charles Sanders Peirce · 1966Love4 quotes
Love comes from blindness,
Friendship comes from knowledge. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy · 1665Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1768Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Jesus · 90Money and friendship3 quotes
Fair face show friends
When riches do abound:
Come time of proof,
Farewell, they must away. — Barnabe Googe · 1563Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend. — William Shakespeare · 1616The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. — Mark Twain · 1894Envy2 quotes
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. — Gore Vidal · 1973Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Equality in friendship2 quotes
Have no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber. — Confucius · 221 BCFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. — Mencius · 300 BCGenerosity2 quotes
Friends share all things. — PythagorasGenerosity is the essence of friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1888Lending2 quotes
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend. — William Shakespeare · 1616The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. — Mark Twain · 1894Love and friendship2 quotes
Love comes from blindness,
Friendship comes from knowledge. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy · 1665Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688Male friendship2 quotes
I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name, best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes. — Ron Swanson · 2011And I love you. Because I've learned that Platonic love can exist between two grown men. — Russell · 1992Men and women2 quotes
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Borrowing1 quote
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend. — William Shakespeare · 1616Brothers1 quote
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. — Epictetus · 135Childhood friends1 quote
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? — The Writer · 1986Communication1 quote
When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally! — Charles Sanders Peirce · 1966Effects of time1 quote
Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688Empathy1 quote
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Equality1 quote
Have no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber. — Confucius · 221 BCExile1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Forgiveness1 quote
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. — Epictetus · 135Gender relations1 quote
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989Gossip1 quote
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Honesty in friendship1 quote
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. — Moliere · 1666Loneliness1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Loving others1 quote
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Jesus · 90Loyalty1 quote
Be slow in chusing a Friend, be slower in changing. — Benjamin Franklin · 1735