Quotes on Friendship

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences._x000D_ _x000D_ There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend._x000D_ _x000D_ On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Nothing prepared me for your smile

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.