Quotes about Friendship
I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
— Abraham Lincoln
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
— Abraham Lincoln
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
— Aesop
Birds of a feather flock together.
— Aesop
A man is known by the company he keeps.
— Aesop
Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
— Alain de Botton
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
— Alain de Botton
There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.
— Alain de Botton
We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.
— Alain de Botton
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It was Bonhoeffer and his friends who proved by their resistance unto death that even in the age of the nation-state there are loyalties which transcend those to state and nation.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer