Quotes about friends

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

— Henry Brooks Adams

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

— George Eliot

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

— William Shakespeare

My friends, there are no friends.

— Coco Chanel

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

— Samuel Johnson

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

— Mark Twain

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

— Erica Jong

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

— Mark Twain

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

— Aristotle

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

— Mark Twain