Famous Friends Quotes
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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?
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
Friends are the mirrors that reflect our growth and remind us of how far we've come.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
Friends are the fuel that ignites our passions and supports us in chasing our dreams.
With a true friend, laughter feels lighter, and sorrow feels shared. It’s not that they change the storm — they just help you carry the umbrella.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
The truest friendships don’t ask you to shrink or shine less. They hold space for your greatness and remind you it’s okay to take up space.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Friendship is the sweet melody that plays in the background of our lives, bringing harmony to every moment.
True friends celebrate your wins louder than you do and sit with you in your lows without needing a reason. They choose you — in the good, in the hard, and in the quiet in-between.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
Friendship is the glue that holds our hearts together, even when miles apart.
My friends are my estate.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
A friend is someone who can make you laugh even in the darkest of times.
Some friends are like Wi-Fi — when they’re gone, everything falls apart and nothing loads properly. Respect the signal.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Friends are the puzzle pieces that fit perfectly into our lives, completing the picture.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Friendship is the foundation of love, kindness, and understanding.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Summer nights are filled with magic, as starry skies ignite dreams and friendships ignite like bonfires.
True friendship is a journey of laughter, support, and shared adventures.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Traveling is a reminder that there are no strangers, only friends we haven't met yet.
Having a pet is like having a best friend who always has your back.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
A true friend is a guardian angel, watching over you and protecting you from harm.
A cat's friendship is a precious gift, filled with trust, loyalty, and endless affection.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Friendship is the sweet melody that accompanies us as we dance through life's joys and sorrows.
A dog is the only friend who loves you more than he loves himself.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Opposition is true friendship.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
A friend is someone who sees your flaws but loves you fiercely anyway.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
A true friend is a light in the darkness, guiding you towards hope and resilience.
Friendship is the kind of magic that doesn’t glitter — it simply stays.