Friendship Quotes

1. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
2. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown
3. A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
5. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow
6. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha
7. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington
8. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson
9. Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Duer Miller
10. Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. Alice Duer Miller
11. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine
12. Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
13. Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius
14. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis
15. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
16. Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali
17. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield
18. I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
19. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison