Quotes on True Friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

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

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

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.

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.

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

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

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.