Friendship Quotes

As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Friends and wine should be old.

Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.

Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

There is only one thing better than making a new friend and that is keeping an old one.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.

None is so rich as to throw away a friend.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.

Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

A new friend is like new wine when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.

Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.

Yes'm old friends is always best 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Many a friendship-long loyal and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails why should one condemn oneself to live day in day out with people one does not like and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Have but few friends though many acquaintances.

Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.

Books and friends should be few but good.

Sudden friendship sure repentance.

Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Treat your friends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Tell me whom you frequent and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

The lion is ashamed it's true when he hunts with the fox.

Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Keep good men company and you shall be of their number.

A man becomes like those whose society he loves.

A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.