455 Quotes Regarding Friendship

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

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde