Friendship Quotes

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

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

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.