Quotes on Friends

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.