Famous Friendship Quotes



Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

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?

Henry David Thoreau

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

Opposition is true friendship.

William Blake

Friendship is the sweet melody that plays in the background of our lives, bringing harmony to every moment.

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.

William Hazlitt

Friendship is the glue that holds our hearts together, even when miles apart.

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is the foundation of love, kindness, and understanding.

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

Henry David Thoreau

True friendship is a journey of laughter, support, and shared adventures.

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

Francis Bacon

Friendship is not about who you have known the longest; it's about who came and never left your side.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

A cat's friendship is a precious gift, filled with trust, loyalty, and endless affection.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship is one of life’s quiet miracles — it’s not always loud, but it’s always there. The best ones don’t need constant tending, yet they grow like wildflowers between us. In laughter, in silence, in hard times and in celebration, friends become the rhythm of our days.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Samuel Johnson

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

Friendship is the kind of magic that doesn’t glitter — it simply stays.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

William Blake

People who celebrate your failures quietly are not your friends. People who give you advice that keeps you small are not your friends. People who are only generous with you when there is an audience are not your friends. The standard for friendship is not complicated. It is simply this: does this person want good things for me, even when no one is watching? If the answer is no, you have your answer.

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

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.

Khalil Gibran

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.

Pietro Aretino

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship is the sweet melody that accompanies us as we dance through life's joys and sorrows.

Friendship is the bridge that connects hearts across any distance.

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