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Famous Friendship Quotes

– “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” – Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist.

– “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucious (551 – 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.

– “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille (1738 – 1813) French poet.

– “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.

– “Keep your friendships in repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British lexiographer.

– “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” – Samuel Johnston

– “It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.” – Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680) French writer.

– “If it is abuse – why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) British dramatist.

– “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.

– “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

– “I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.” – George Washington

– “Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?” – Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.

– “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.

– “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus

– “These are called the pious frauds of friendship.” – Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) British novelist.

– “Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” – Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.

– “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.” – Samuel Johnston

General, Positive Friendship Quotes

– “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton

– “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anais Nin

– “My friends are my estate.” – Emily Dickinson

– “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

– “A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” – Walter Winchell

– “A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein

– “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” – John Leonard

– “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubard

– “I get by with a little help from my friends.” – John Lennon

– “Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” – Mary Catherwood

– “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.” – C. S. Lewis

– “I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.” – Logan Pearsall Smith

– “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy…” – Guido

– “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” –Benjamin Disraeli

– “I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.” – Cher

– “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Negative Friendship Quotes

If you think that friendship is all about colored flowers, joyfull, and happyness, well … you’re wrong. There are several negative friendship quotes that I’m gonna show you.

– “There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me … We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.” – Bing Crosby

– “Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!” – Bronwyn Polson

– I don’t trust him. We’re friends.” – Bertolt Brecht

– “I’ve noticed your hostility towards him … I ought to have guessed you were friends.” – Malcolm Bradbury

– “A friend in power is a friend lost” – Henry Adams

– “Whenever a friend suceeds, a little something in me dies.” – Gore Vidal

– “A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.” – Lord Samuel

– “These people aren’t your friends, they’re paid to kiss your feet.” – Radiohead

– “When I needed you most when I needed a friend, you let me down now like I let you down then” – Blink 182

– “Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.” – Honore Debalazac