Friendship Quotes

Men blow friendship around like a football, but it does not seem to crack. Treating women as glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Mighty proud I am that I am capable of having an extra bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe.
Elbert Hubbard

Never a companion who casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Nothing strengthens a friendship as a belief of a friend that it is superior to another.
Honore de Balzac

His friends are a part of the human race with which one man.
George Santayana

She is a friend of mind. She collects, man. The pieces that I am, she gather them and give them back to me in the right order. It's good, you know, when you're a woman who was a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Do not say, but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Because there is nothing so well worth it to have friends, never lose the chance to create them.
Francesco Guicciardini

The bird a nest, the spider man web of friendship.
William Blake

The friend is the man who knows everything about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing ... not cured, not cured ... a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Most of what I can do for my friend's just his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

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

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments in life that simple?
Eugene Kennedy

The sincere friends of this world the light vessel in most of the night restless.
Giotto di Bondone

There is nothing on this earth more valued than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas

Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory, I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats