Friendship Quote

Friendship Quote

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
~ William Blake

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
~ Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
~ Confucious (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
~ Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet

A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist

Keep your friendships in repair.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
~ Samuel Johnston

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
~ Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) French writer

If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) British dramatist

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
~ George Washington (1732 - 1799) US Statesman

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
~ George Washington