Friendship Quotes

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A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start. -- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Oeuvres poétiques

A friend in need's a friend indeed. -- Pure Morning, a song by Placebo

A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. -- The Bible, Proverbs 17:17 (NRSV)

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. -- Proverbs 17:17 (WEB)

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -- Anaïs Nin, Diary entry, March 1937

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. -- Jacques Delille, Malheur at Pitié (Canto I), 1803

Friendship is not for merriment but for stern reproach when friends go astray. -- Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 784

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib, A Hundred Sayings

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. -- Still Remains, a song by Stone Temple Pilots

I get by with a little help from my friends. -- With a Little Help from My Friends, a song by The Beatles

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his. -- Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, 29 November 1953

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. -- The Bible, Proverbs 18:24

Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends. -- William Butler Yeats, The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. -- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. -- Richard Bach, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. -- The Bible, Hebrews 13:2

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. -- Attributed to Sun Tzu, may also be an interpretation of text contained in The Prince

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." -- The Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:4

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. -- The Bible, John 15:13

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