Friendship

Famous (and Infamous) Descriptions, Analogies and Opinions

Updated 0606.26/10733

Unknown: "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."

Alphabetically listed by author.

Adams, Jane: "Friends are family you choose for yourself." (From the New York Times)

Anonymous: "Friend's are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life." (from Taste of Home)

Aristotle: "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Bacon, Sir Francis: "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere Friendship."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: "A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a Friend is to be one."

Franklin, Benjamin: "Be slow in choosing a Friend, slower in changing."

Forster, E.M.: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

Gentry, Dave Tyson: "True Friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Grimwald, Nicholas: "Of all the Heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, what trusty treasure in the world can countervail a Friend?"

Jefferson, Thomas: "Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. And thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

Koontz, Dean: "Friends are the only things from this damaged world that we can hope to see in the next; friends and loved ones are the very light that brightens the Hereafter." (From Seize the Night)

Koontz, Dean: "Never leave a Friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life - and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next." (From Fear Nothing)

Koontz, Dean: "You can handle anything, including the end of the world as we know it, if at your side are friends with the proper attitude." (From Fear Nothing)

Tolkien, J.R.R.: "We renounce no Friendship; but it may be the part of a Friend to rebuke a Friend's folly." (From The Silmarillion)

Twain, Mark: "The proper office of a Friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are right."

Weeks, Barbara: "Happiness is... Being married to your Best Friend."