Quotes about Friendship
Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.
— Jon Bon Jovi
Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.
— Thomas Monson
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
— Matt Chandler
And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.
— Hilaire Belloc
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
— Joseph Addison
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
— Khalil Gibran
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
— Euripides
Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
— Victor Hugo
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
— Victor Hugo
any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.
— Victor Hugo