What is life without a little friendship? After the tremendous reader response to the collections of friendship quotes on the Quotations site at About.com, I am encouraged to present one more collection of friendship quotes.
- Alexander Pope
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
- Robert Browning
Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
- Walt Whitman
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
- Benjamin Franklin
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Alexander Pope
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
- Alexander Pope
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
- Alexander Pope
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
- Francis Bacon
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
