Famous Friends Quotes



I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.

Mark Twain

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Kurt Cobain

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Mark Twain

Friendship is the sweet melody that plays in the background of our lives, bringing harmony to every moment.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Alexander Pope

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Joseph Conrad

A friend is someone who can make you laugh even in the darkest of times.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

Friends are the puzzle pieces that fit perfectly into our lives, completing the picture.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristophanes

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Khalil Gibran

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Samuel Johnson

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

Friendship is the foundation of love, kindness, and understanding.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Omar Khayyam

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Benjamin Franklin

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.

William Butler Yeats

True friendship is a journey of laughter, support, and shared adventures.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Pietro Aretino

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

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

George Washington

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

Having a pet is like having a best friend who always has your back.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

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?

Thomas Jefferson

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Nicolaus Copernicus

A cat's friendship is a precious gift, filled with trust, loyalty, and endless affection.

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean de La Fontaine

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Aristophanes

Winter, like a wise friend, teaches us that the most profound beauty often lies in subtlety — the soft crunch of snow, the muted hues of the sky, and the gentle resilience of nature awaiting its rebirth.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Homer

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

William Blake

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

Cicero

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Samuel Johnson

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Henry David Thoreau

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Traveling is a reminder that there are no strangers, only friends we haven't met yet.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship is the sweet melody that accompanies us as we dance through life's joys and sorrows.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sallust

A friend is someone who sees your flaws but loves you fiercely anyway.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Sallust

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friends are the mirrors that reflect our growth and remind us of how far we've come.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jean de La Fontaine

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friends are the fuel that ignites our passions and supports us in chasing our dreams.

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