Friends Quotes

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.