“Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.”
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.
“Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.”
“Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.”
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
“Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”
“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.”
“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”
“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.”
“Opposition is true friendship.”
“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
“Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”