friendship quotes

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

— Albert Camus

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

— Samuel Butler

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.”

— Leo Buscaglia

“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.”

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

— Baltasar Gracian

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

— Hubert Humphrey

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”

— Hubert Humphrey

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

— Robert Edward Lee

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”

— Alexander Pope

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“No man is useless while he has a friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”

— William Butler Yeats