Explore Quotes on Friendship

He who hath many friends hath none.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

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

No friendship is an accident.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.