Quotes on That One Friend

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

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

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.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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.

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

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

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.