Aphorisms and sentences on the values of true and sincere friendship, with funny quotes to express an authentic feeling towards someone, what in words is not always easy to express.
Friendship quotes
- Of all the things that wisdom provides for a happy life, the greatest good is the purchase of friendship. (Epicurus)
- Friendship is great, and how great it really is cannot be expressed in words, but only experienced. (St. John Chrysostom)
- The moment when we have managed to restore a true and effective equality between man and man, we will be able to establish the equality between man and all creation. When that day comes, we will have peace on earth and friendship between men. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Friendship diminishes when there is too much happiness on one side and too much bad luck on the other. (Queen Isabella Kazimira Jagiello)
- Friendship is esteem: an esteem also capable of creating what does not actually exist.
- Friendships are fragile things, and require as much care as any other fragile and precious object. (Randolph Silliman Bourne)
- The essence of perfect friendship lies in revealing oneself deeply to the other, abandoning any reservations and showing oneself for what one really is. (Robert Hugh Benson)
- There is no worse desert than a life without friends: friendship multiplies goods and shares evils. (Baltasar Gracian)
- True friendship is a plant that grows slowly and must go through the traumas of adversity in order to be called such. (George Washington)
- Friendship is neither a formality nor a mannerism: it is rather a life. (David Grayson)
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- If the first rule of friendship is to cultivate it, the second rule is to be forgiving when the first one has been broken (Voltaire).
- A true friend is someone who is there for you when he wants to be somewhere else. (Len Wein)
- My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. (Henry Ford)
- Love and respect are the basis of all friendship and, if one of them is missing, friendship would be imperfect. (Eustace Budgell)
- The best part of a person's life is his friendships. (Abraham Lincoln)
- Love and friendship are like the echo: they give as much as they receive (A.I. Herzen).
- Friendship brings many and great advantages, but it presents one clearly superior to the others: it feeds good hopes that lighten the future and does not allow the soul to get depressed and depressed. (Guide)
- Wherever you are, your friend is building your world (W. James).
- True friendships are the ones you pick up from exactly where you left them, a week or two years have passed. (Jojo Moyes)
- Those who pride themselves on having conquered a multitude of friends, have never had one. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) ù
- Be slow to make friends; but once done, continue with firmness and constancy. (Socrates)
- Friendship is the only cement that will always keep the world together (W. Wilson).
- Friendship is the only cement that will always keep the world together. (Woodrow Wilson)
- True friendship boils down to this: in wanting or not wanting, in full agreement, the same thing (Sallustio).
- Trust is the glue of friendship. (Publilio Siro)
- We don't need so many friends at all. Our heart wants few but authentic, selfless and sincere. (Agostino Degas)
- The fable teaches that those who betray friendship, even if they manage to escape the victims' revenge, due to their powerlessness, cannot in any case escape the punishment of heaven. (Aesop)
- A faithful friend is a life balm, it is the safest protection. You can collect treasures of all kinds but nothing is worth as much as a sincere friend. Just seeing him the friend arouses a joy in the heart that spreads throughout the whole being. (St. John Chrysostom)
- Be kind to everyone, but intimate with a few, and let those few be well-experienced before giving them your confidence. True friendship is a plant that grows slowly and must go through the traumas of adversity in order to be called such. (George Washington)
- Friendship supports everything, believes in everything, hopes everything, endures everything (First letter to the Corinthians).
Friendship aphorisms
- I still do not know anything more precious in the world than a solid and sincere friendship. (Hermann Hesse)
- Wherever you are, your friend is building your world. (W. James)
- There is no more certain bond of friendship than an identity of communion of ideas and tastes. (Guide)
- True friendships are eternal. (Marco Tullio Cicerone)
- When you need a friend, it's too late to make one. (Mark Twain)
- Friendship is listening to others as you would like others to listen to you.
- Friendship between people of different sexes is a noble artificial plant, but requires gardener skills. (Lou Andreas Salome)
- The only way to have a friend is to be a friend. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- There are three types of friendship: pleasure-based friendship; interest-based friendship; friendship based on goodness. (Aristotle)
- We should behave with our friends as we would like them to behave with us.
- In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult. (Epictetus)
- Being honest may not make you have many friends, but it will make you have the right ones. (John Lennon)
- Friendship is a soul dwelling in two bodies, a heart that inhabits two souls. (Aristotle)
- Friendship doubles the joys and divides the anxieties.
- We are friends. I don't want anything from you, you don't want anything from me. You and me ... we divide life. (Khalil Gibran)
- Whoever looks at a real friend is actually looking at himself in a mirror. (Marco Tullio Cicerone)
- I think a friend is someone you can share your most intimate emotions with, someone who is willing to risk friendship just to tell you what he thinks you shouldn't do ... a true friend is someone who cares so much to tell me things that I don't want to hear. (Peter Gabriel)
- Many people will come in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- True friendships are eternal. (Guide)
- The pleasure of banquets should not be measured by the delicacies of the courses, but by the company of friends and their speeches.
- If our friendship depended on things like space and time, then, once we have overcome space and time, we will also have destroyed our partnership! Do not you think? But if you go beyond time and space, there will only be the Now and the Here, the Here and the Now. (Richard Bach)
- True friends grab almost everything in an instant. They compete to understand each other and live in a world without lies. (Banana Yoshimoto)
- Is it not true that it is not at all strange that friendships based on utility and pleasure are dissolved when you no longer have these advantages? And of those advantages that you were friends: those who have ceased, it is natural that you no longer love each other. (Aristotle)
- One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is understanding and being understood. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- True friendship is made of trust, loyalty and indulgence. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- The distance and the long absence go to the detriment of any friendship.
- I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, and three for companionship. (Henry David Thoreau)
- A friend can tell you things you don't want to say to yourself. (Frances Ward Weller)
- My friend next to you I have nothing to apologize for, nothing to defend myself from, nothing to prove: I find peace ... Beyond my clumsy words you can only see the man in me. (Antoine De Saint Exupery)
- Friendship is a rare thing. To be cultivated, nourished and defended like the greatest of loves.
Friendship phrases
- There is no solid friendship without trust: and there is no trust without spending some time. (Aristotle)
- Who is everyone's friend is nobody's friend. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- Be polite to everyone; sociable with many; intimate with a few; friend with only one; enemy with nobody. (Benjamin Franklin)
- The best kind of friend is the type with which you can sit on a porch and walk together, without saying a word, and when you go away you feel as if it was the best conversation ever had. (Paulo Coelho)
- Do you know what friendship is? Yes, being a brother and sister, two souls who touch each other without confusion, the two fingers of the hand. It's love? Oh love, it's being two and being only one person. A man and woman who merge into an angel. It is heaven. (Victor Hugo)
- True friends are loners together. (Abel Bonnard)
- I learned that every day you should push yourself to touch someone. People love an affectionate caress, or just a friendly pat on the back. (Maya Angelou)
- The splendor of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the gentle smile nor the joy of companionship: it is the spiritual inspiration when we discover that someone believes in us and is willing to trust us.
- No temporal or spatial distance can weaken the friendship of two people who each believe in the value of the other. (Robert Southey)
- Bad luck shows us who are not true friends. (Aristotle)
- Friendship improves happiness and reduces unhappiness, by doubling our joy and sharing our pain. (Guide)
- Friendship, like love, requires almost as much art as a successful dance figure. It takes a lot of momentum and a lot of control, many exchanges of words and many silences. Above all, a lot of respect.
- The distance and the long absence go to the detriment of any friendship. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- Sharing a joy, not sharing in pain, makes a man a true friend. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- There can be no friendship between men and women. There can be passion, hostility, adoration, love, but not friendship. (Oscar Wilde)
- Friendships cannot be explained and must not be explained if one does not want to kill them.
- Of all the things that wisdom provides for a happy existence, the greatest is friendship. (Epicurus)
- The real friend is the one to whom you have nothing to say. At the same time it satisfies our wildness and our sociability. (Tristan Bernard)
- Those who eliminate friendship from life, eliminate the sun from the world. (Guide)
- True friendship is a plant that grows slowly and must go through the traumas of adversity in order to be called such.
- You, up to now for me, are only a boy equal to one hundred thousand boys. And I do not need you. And you don't need me either. I am for you only a fox equal to one hundred thousand foxes. But if you tame me, we will need one another. You will be unique to me in the world, and I will be unique to you in the world. (Antoine De Saint Exupery)
- True friendship is like phosphorescence, it shines best when everything becomes dark. (Rabindranah Tagore)
- True friendship consists in being able to reveal the truth of the heart to the other. (Pope francesco)
- Friendship is like a magic word equivalent to the most beautiful melody there is. His notes are trust, courage, support, the right reproach and a warm hug.
- Remember who was there when you were sick, because they will be the ones you want next when everything is going well. (Marilyn Monroe)
- As true love is rare, true friendship is even rarer. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
- Friendship is the most difficult thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything. (Muhammad Ali)
- True friendship resists time, distance and silence. (Isabel Allende)
- It takes a minute to notice a special person, an hour to appreciate her, a day to love her, a whole life to forget her. (Sir Charlie Chaplin)
- The friends that matter are the ones you can call at 4 in the morning. (Marlene Dietrich)
- Don't walk behind me, I might not lead you. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow you. Just walk next to me and be my friend. (Albert Camus)
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