50 Best Friends Quotes & Sayings about Friendship

Treat people
as if they were
what they ought to be
and you help them
to become
what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749 – 1832, German writer, artist and politician)

Friendship Quote: The only way to have a friend is to be one - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our chief want in life,
is, someone who shall make us
do what we can.
This is the service
of a friend.
With him
we are easily great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803 – 1882, American essayist, lecturer and poet)

The only way
to have a friend
is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803 – 1882, American essayist, lecturer and poet)

A man’s friendships
are one of the best measures
of his worth.
Charles Robert Darwin

(1809 – 1882, English naturalist)

It is difficult to obtain
the friendship of a cat.
It is a philosophical animal…
one that does not place
its affections thoughtlessly.
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier

(1811 – 1872, French poet, dramatist, and critic)

Friendship is
the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe
with a person,
having neither
to weigh thoughts
nor measure words.
Mary Anne Evans

(1819 – 1880, better known by her pen name George Eliot,
English novelist, and journalist)

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

(1835 – 1910, American author and humorist)