Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."

- Edith Wharton

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

- Cicero

"When true friends meet in adverse hour;'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.A watery way an instant seen,The darkly closing clouds between."

- Sir Walter Scott

"... no man is uselesswhile he has a friend."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Never shall i forget the days i spent with you . continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

-Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Be slow in choosing your friends; slower in changing."

-Benjamin Franklin -Sent in by André

The following five quotes were sent in by Handan"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

-Benjamin Franklin

" 'Stay' is a charming word in a friends vocabulary."

-Louisa Mary Alcott [1832-1888], American writer, reformist

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

-William Arthur Ward

"Friendship? Yes Please."

-Charles Dickens - Sent in by Steffi

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

- Alexander Pope

"A friend is, as it were, a second self.

- Cicero (Sent by Nigar Baimova)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, it is the true sourse of art, science, and friendship."

- Albert Einstien (Sent by Brandon Merenda)

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

- Thomas Jefferson (Sent by Shawn)

"The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day."

- Hilda Brett Farr

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"In a friend you find a second self."

- Isabelle Norton

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking foward to sharing time with them again."

- Lee Wilkinson

"Ah, how good it feels...the hand of an old friend"

- Mary Englebright

"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Friendship is a single soul dwellings in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

"Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."

- Francis Bacon

"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