Philosophical Quotes on Friendship [Archive] - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

swedeace

07-11-2005, 08:20 PM

Here are the ones I have:

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Pam Brown

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

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

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edward W. Howe

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

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

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Duer Miller

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.
Jeanette Winterson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson