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.