top
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Friendship

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Arthur Schopenhauer | Friendship

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies – inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities – made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

John Irving | Friendship

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche – Woman, Friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler – Friendship

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Seneca – Friendship, Advice

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

Seneca – Friendship abd understanding

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away – but not that of having had one.

Seneca – Friendship, Comfort

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca – Friendship

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Nicolas Chamfort – Friendship

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.

Truman Capote – Friendship

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot – Friendship

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot – Friendship, Newness

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot – Friendship, feeling safe

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

George Eliot – A friend is one

Page 1 of 41234


bottom