Friendship

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

—Oscar Wilde

When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

—Jane Austen

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

—John Webster

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

—John Henry Newman

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

—Marlene Dietrich

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

—Peter Ustinov

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

—William Blake

I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

—Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

—Arthur Brisbane

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

—Wilson Mizner

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

—Friedrich Nietzsche