Quotes on Friendship

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

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.

I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

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

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.