Quotes About Friends and Friendship

Value friendship for what there's in it,
not for what may be gotten out of it.
H. Clay Trumbull

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find a decent one, you need to 100 strive.
Claude Mermet

One friend during a lifetime is much; 2 are many;
three are hardly doable.
Henry Adams

Friendship is that the soul's heaven.
A. Bronson Alcott

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero

Be gracious to any or all men, however opt for the most effective to be your friends.
Isocrates

Friendship desires no words--it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

A friend is one who dislikes constant folks you dislike.
Unknown

Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, return into the terribly essence of friendship.
William Ellery

There is no surer bond of friendship than an identity of community of concepts and tastes.
Cicero

We should behave to our friends as we might want our friends behave to us.
Aristotle

Friendship, like phosphorus, shines brightest when all around is dark.
Proverb

Friends are like melons. you will strive fifty before you discover a decent one.
Claude Mermet

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian

Difference of opinion was never, with me, a motive of separation from a disciple.
Thomas Jefferson