Quotes on Friendship

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.