20 Quotes About Friendship

This article contains 20 quotations about friendship.

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” (Thomas Jefferson)

“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.” (Giotto di Bondone)

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” (Abraham Lincoln)

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” (Virginia Woolf)

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.” (Khalil Gibran)

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” (Henry Ford)

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” (Thomas A. Edison)

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” (Jim Morrison)

“Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” (Elbert Hubbard)

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” (Euripides)

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” (Mencius)

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” (Len Wein)

“Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.” (Frederick William Faber)

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

“Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.” (Rabindranath Tagore)

“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.” (Simone Weil)

“If I’m right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.” (W. Bruce Cameron)

Conclusion

I hope you find these quotations inspiring and helpful.

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