Good friends are hard to find and worth holding onto. These quotes celebrate the people who show up, tell you the truth, and stick around when things get difficult — the chosen family that makes life richer.
“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
“If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.”
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.”
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
“I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.”
“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”
“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.”
“It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.”
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”