Friendship Quotes

“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.”

“Though I flatter myself that I am a philosopher, I am not a recluse. I love my books very dearly, as I do my flower-garden, my orchard, and my kail-yard, where... I grow very fine drum-head cabbages; but I also love at times to close my library door, to shut my garden gate, and go forth into the busy world, to mix with my fellows, hear their opinions and give them mine. On these occasions I endeavour to rub off the rust and mildew of a rural solitude, to acquire, I will not say a polish, but a certain smoothness, from the lubrication of social intercourse. At the same time cultivate my sympathies by laughing at human nature, whenever, as Beaumarchais says, I am not inclined to weep for it.”

“Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.”

“'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his.”

“FRIENDSHIP. A mutual belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, hobgoblins and imbecilities.”

“The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.”

“It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.”

“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.”

“And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.”

“And in 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.”

“As a friend, you don't always know what to say that will help, but you usually know what not to say that won't.”

“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”