Good Friendship quotes: Best famous quotes about Friendship
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. – Emil Ludwig
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. – George MacDonald
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. – Katherine Mansfield
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. – Mencius
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. – Alice Duer Miller
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
When a woman like that whom I’ve seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. – Alice Duer Miller
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings. – Alice Duer Miller
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. – Alice Duer Miller
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. – Toni Morrison
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. – Douglas Pagels
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. – Samuel Pepys
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. – Laurence J. Peter
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. – Plautus
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. – Joseph Roux
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. – George Santayana
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. – Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. – George Washington
True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. – Oprah Winfrey
We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. – Jeanette Winterson
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