Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes on Friendship

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Octavia E. Butler
Your friend is your needs answered.
- Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
- Charles Eastman
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
- Plautus
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
- Samuel Richardson
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
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
- William Butler Yeats
If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
- Thomas Fuller