Friendship Quotes

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Women, Men, Football

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

Work, Friends, Fruit

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

Friends, Deceived, Distrust

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

Friends, Matter, Call

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams, Friends, Another

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

Friends, Whose, Favor

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

Best, Laughter, Bad

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

Fool, Yourself, Job

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde

Friends, Disliked, Intensely

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Growth, Seen

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Eyes, Blind

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Friend, May

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

Time, Friends, Painful

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge, Ignorance, True

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya

Happiness, Give, Friends

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

May, Round, Encircle

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

Best, Friend, Brings

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Single, Friend, Two

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin

Friend, Changing, Slow

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Greatest, Gift

He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle

Friends, None, Hath

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.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Live, Heart, True

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Saying, Real, Friends

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

Nothing, Friend, Heaven

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