3,061 Quotes About Friends

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

A true friend is a sort of second self.