Quotes about friendship
200 quotes from 127 people
For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero107–43 BCLaelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (44 BC), Section 22You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Duty surviving Self-Love (1826)
Colette1873–1954Break of Day (1928)Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; LXXXIIIWe hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CIII- CCConstitutional ConventionThe Constitution of the United States (September 17, 1787), Article IIIIn context
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935The Little Book of Buddhism (2000)
Clarence Darrow1857–1938The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 27 “The Loeb-Leopold Tragedy”, p. 232Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859); Thomas H. Johnson (ed.) The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958) p. 338, no. 193The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.
