Quotes about Friendship
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted.
— Anonymous
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
— Cicero
It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.
— Anonymous
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
— CS Lewis
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
— St. Jerome
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
— Mortimer Adler
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
— Jonathan Edwards
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
— Arthur Ashe
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
— Samuel Johnson