“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Quotes about friendship
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“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.”
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
“Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”