Friendship Quotes: Famous & Historic

"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

"A true friend stabs you in the front."

- Oscar Wilde

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,And say my glory was I had such friends."

- William Yeats

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

- Mark Twain

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."

- Cicero

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."

- Helen Keller

"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

- Saint Jerome

"I count myselt in nothing else so happyAs in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."

- William Shakespeare

"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."

- Thomas Jefferson