Quotes on Friends

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

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.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

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

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.