Quotes for English LearnersThese are English quotes arranged according to different categories. You can also browse quotes according to their date of submission or by most famous authors
This is a list of quotes about friendship
A friend
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growthA man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single soulWhat is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
A thousand friendsHe who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An insincere and evil friendAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
Beside meDon't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
Dear friendBut if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
William Shakespeare
Deserving me at my bestI'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
Everywhere is nowhereEverywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Seneca
Far awayA friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran
FriendshipFriendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
Friendship and justiceWhen people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Aristotle
He makes no friendsHe makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I had a friendI'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln
I have friendsI have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
In misfortuneIn misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides
Love in times of troubleFriends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
Loyal friendOne loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
Man friendshipThe bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Memory of friendsSo long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
My friendsSome people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
One friendThe antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
Only the titleEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
Part friendsDo not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt
Presence that calls forth your besThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
Prudent friendLife has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides
Qualities of true friendshipOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Seneca
Sweet responsibilityFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
The language of friendshipThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
The possession of friendshipOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
The sweetness of friendshipIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran
True friendsTrue friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
Walking with a friendWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
We are not enemiesWe are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
What I can do for my friendThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
