Quotes about Friendship
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
— Anais Nin
Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place — to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.
— CS Lewis
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
— Samuel Johnson
Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
— Lauren Bacall
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
— Milan Kundera
It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.
— Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
— Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.
— Mark Twain
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
— Mark Twain
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
— Mark Twain
It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve
— Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.
— Mark Twain