Quotes on Friends

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Let your best be for your friend.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.