Quotes on Friendship

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.

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

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.