429 private quotes tagged friendship

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

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“An excellent man; he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” — Lord Byron

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“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” — Buddha

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“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle

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“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.” — Albert Camus

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“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali

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“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.” — Oprah Winfrey

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

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“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” — Confucius

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“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.” — Saint Francis de Sales

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“It is amazing how you can surround yourself with so many people you can call friends, and yet actually only have one or two real ones.” — Jerry Grant Blakeney

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

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“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” — Epicurus

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

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

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“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

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“True friends stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde

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