Friendship Quotes

• "Friendship is the wine of life."
  By: Edward Young
  Friendship Quotes
• "Friendship is the greatest honesty and ingenuity in the world."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
  Friendship Quotes
• "Friendship is the alloy of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, exercise and improvement of what we meditate. And although I love my friend because he is worthy, yet he is not worthy if he can do no good."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
  Friendship Quotes
• "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence."
  By: Sydney Smith, Of Friendship--Lady Holland's Memoir
  Friendship Quotes
• "By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks, So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities; But out upon this half-faced fellowship!"
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at I, iii)
  Friendship Quotes
• "Friendship is full of dregs."
  By: William Shakespeare
  Friendship Quotes
• "Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. [Lat., Amicitia semper prodest, amor etiam aliquando nocet.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium
  Friendship Quotes
• "To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]"
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Catilina (XX), from Cataline's Oration to his Associates
  Friendship Quotes
• "To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship."
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus)
  Friendship Quotes
• "What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Trinummus (II, 2, 47)
  Friendship Quotes
• "As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [Lat., Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore in duro est inspicienda fides.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristium (I, 5, 25)
  Friendship Quotes
• "The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 3, 8)
  Friendship Quotes
• "There is no friendship between those associated in power; he who rules will always be impatient of an associate. [Lat., Nulla fides regni sociis omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit.]"
  By: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (I, 92)
  Friendship Quotes
• "Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
  Friendship Quotes
• "Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
  Friendship Quotes