Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;For, thus friends absent speak."

- John Donne

"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friendUnjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."

- John Boyle O'Reilly

"Friends have all things in common."

- Plato

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

- Artistotle

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."

- Edward Everett Hale

"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."

- James Fenimore Cooper

"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."

- Fracis Bacon

"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."

- James Francis Byrnes

"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."

- Cicero

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not save your loving speechesFor your friends till they are dead;Do not write them on their tombstones,Speak them rather now instead.

- Anna Cummins