Friendship Quotes
Friendship quotes and friendship sayings. Friendship quotes.
"The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other." - Aristotle
"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest." - Homer. Odyssey,
translated by Alexander Pope.
"There is no life without friendship." - Cicero
"There cannot be friendship without virtue." - Sallust
"To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship." - Cicero
"Feigned friendship is to be avoided." - anon
"The cultivation of friendship with the powerful is pleasant to the inexperienced, but he who has
experienced it dreads it." - Horace
"He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it." - Cicero
"Those who deliberate on controversial matters should be free from hatred, friendship, anger, and pity." - Julius Cæsar
"Be this the first law of friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonorable, nor ourselves do it when asked." - Cicero
"As the yellow gold is tested in the fire, so the faith of
friendship can only be known in the time of adversity." - Ovid
"Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun." - Cicero
"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." - Aristotle.
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
- Thomas Jones.
"A friendship who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative." - George Ade.
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton.
"One has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth." - May Sarton
"Better is old wine than new, and old friends likewise." - Charles Kingsley
"Kinship can exist without goodwill, but friendship cannot." - Cicero
"Kings are said to press with many a cup, and test with wine the man whom they desire to test whether he be worthy of their
friendship." - Horace
"Friendship makes prosperity brighter while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties." - Cicero
"Live free from envy and spend your peaceful years without fame,
and thus live in friendship with your peers." - Ovid.
"All things are common among friends." - Terence
"There can be no more effective instrument of good government than good friends." - Tacitus
"Do you count your birthdays thankfully?, forgive your friends?, grow gentler and better with advancing age?" - Horace
"He who attacks an absent friend, or who does not defend him when spoken ill of by another; that man is a dark character; you,
Romans, beware of him." - Horace
"But at least we might do for a friend what a father does for his child, and not be disgusted by a blemish." - Horace
"If anyone feigns with you in speaking and is not a sincere friend, do the same with him, and thus let art be foiled by art." -
Dionysius Cato
"He does nothing who seeks to console a desponding person with words; a friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time where
deeds are called for." - Plautus
“For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, welcome the coming, speed the going guest” - Alexander Pope.
