A collection of ancient proverbs on the issue of friendship, as well as, some of the finest thoughts, quotes and sayings on friendship from some of the best thinkers the world has seen.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ~St. Thomas Aquinas
The friendship that can cease has never been real. ~St. Jerome
A friend to all is a friend to none. ~Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~Aristotle
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Mencius
True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ~Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ~Elbert Hubbard
Don'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
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. ~Robert Hall
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. ~John D. Rockefeller
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
An 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
Friends are born, not made. ~Henry B. Adams
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ~George Washington
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ~Margaret Walker
Friendship and money: oil and water. ~Mario Puzo
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault
The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ~Francesco Guicciardini
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. ~Joseph Roux
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~Dale Carnegie
Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need. ~Danish proverb
In forming new friendships, forget not old friends. ~Latin proverb
Your friend's enemy might be your best friend. ~German proverb
Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all. ~Moroccan proverb
Presents keep friendship warm. ~German proverb
So long as the pot is boiling, friendship will stay warm. ~Arab proverb
May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together. ~Malagasy proverb
Better an honest enemy than a false friend. ~German proverb
In times of difficulty, friendship is on trial. ~Greek proverb
Distrust is poison to friendship. ~Danish proverb
Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. ~Chinese proverb
Separation secures manifest friendship. ~Indian proverb
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish proverb
Honest advice doesn't destroy true friendship. ~African proverb
A youth that does not cultivate friendship with the elderly is like a tree without roots. ~Ntomba proverb
There are many kinds of fruit that grow on the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship. ~American proverb
The silence resulting from absence has destroyed many a friendship. ~Latin proverb
Friendship is love with intelligence. ~German proverb
Warm food, warm friendships. ~Czech proverb
Friendship is a plant we must often water. ~German proverb
Kind words heal friendship's wounds. ~Danish proverb
If you choose to make friendship with a pig you must be prepared to live in the mad. ~African proverb
To preserve friendship, one must build walls. ~Italian proverb
True friendship does not freeze in the winter. ~German proverb
Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun. ~Japanese proverb
The more intimate the friendship the deadlier the enmity. ~African proverb
Offer not the right hand of friendship to every one. ~Latin proverb
Your friendship is your needs answered. ~Danish proverb
Friendship is an empty word if it only works one way. ~American proverb
A friendship that dies is never reborn. ~Belizean proverb
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ~Spanish proverb
Little presents maintain friendship. ~French proverb
In adversity is when friendship is proven. ~Portuguese proverb
Friendship likes distance. ~Maasai proverb
A frequent accounting, a long friendship. ~Sicilian proverb
As mills require two stones, so friendship requires two heads. ~Armenian proverb
Friendship lasts as long as the pot boils. ~Latin proverb
Better to lose a little money than a little friendship. ~Malagasy proverb
Mutual gifts cement friendship. ~Ivorian proverb
The person who has no enemies also has no friends. ~German proverb
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