Quotes on Real Friends

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Let your best be for your friend.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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.

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.

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

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