Quotations on Friendship

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-- Aristotle

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
-- Anonymous

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter."
-- James Fenimore Cooper

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
-- Martin Luther King, JR.

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
-- Martin Luther King, JR.

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
-- Henry Ford

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
-- Rabindranath Tagore

"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."
-- Samuel Johnson

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."
-- Anonymous

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
-- Willam Blake:

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-- Abrahaim Lincoln

"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare, False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
-- Anonymous

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."
-- Anonymous

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
-- Holy Bible

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
-- Anonymous

"Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar."
-- Benjamin Franklin