Quotes about friendship
200 quotes from 127 people
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Essays, Goethe’s Works.
Agatha Christie1890–1976The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), Hercule Poirot
Aristotle384–322 BCEudemian Ethics, Book VII, 1238a.20
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Domestic Life
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Joseph Gillespie (13 July 1849)Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
While both are dear, Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book I chapter 6, 1096a.16I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.
Helen Keller1880–1968“Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy”, Joseph P. Lash (1980)The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 7 (Bartlett’s, 9th ed. 1892)He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic AttackMan usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else—unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and OpinionsA friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), Chapter 1 (p. 7)It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus525–456 BCAgamemnon, lines 832–833True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson1572–1637Cynthia’s Revels (1600), Act III, scene iiFor friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero107–43 BCLaelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (44 BC), Section 22
