Friendship Quotes

The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.

18559 quotes

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"A true friend is rare; cherish those you find."
Martial
M
"Friendship is the greatest gift life offers."
Martial
P
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
Pliny the Elder
P
"Better to have one friend of great value than many friends of little worth."
Pliny the Elder
H
"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."
Horace
H
"The laws of friendship are austere and eternal."
Horace
P
"Friendship is the greatest gift one can bestow upon another."
Pliny the Younger
P
"A life without friendship is a life without light."
Pliny the Younger
A
"The bonds of friendship are forged in shared adversity, not in mutual prosperity."
Ammianus Marcellinus
T
"Suspicion is the poison of friendship."
Tacitus
T
"Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them."
Tacitus
M
"The best friend is one who loves you as you are, not as you wish to be."
Martial
M
"True friendship requires no explanation."
Martial
P
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Pliny the Elder
L
"The friendship of the virtuous is beyond price."
Livy
S
"A friend is a second self."
Suetonius
H
"Bad company ruins good character."
Horace
H
"A narrow circle of friends is richer than a great throng of acquaintances."
Horace
P
"Friendship is not to be purchased by gifts alone."
Pliny the Younger
T
"True friendship is forged in adversity and tested by time."
Tacitus
A
"The bonds of friendship transcend the accidents of birth and station."
Ammianus Marcellinus
P
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
Pliny the Elder
C
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
Cato the Younger
L
"Faithful friends are hard to find."
Livy
L
"True friendship transcends time and distance."
Livy
C
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
Cato the Elder
C
"A good friend is worth more than gold"
Cato the Elder
H
"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."
Horace
P
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
Pliny the Younger
P
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
Pliny the Younger