Friends Quotes

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.