Quotes on Friendship

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.