friendship Quotes

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

He who hath many friends hath none.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.