Beautiful quotes about friendship

As I focus a bit more on speaking positively, and thinking positively, I think about the importance of good friends and healthy relationships. Here are some beautiful quotes about friendship. I hope you enjoy!:

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies” [Aristotle]
“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it” [Cicero De Amicitia]
“Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex” [Joseph Roux Meditations of a Parish Priest]
A new friend is like new wine; you do not enjoy drinking it until it has matured —Ben Sira
A new friend is a new wine —The Holy Bible/Apocrypha
Without a friend the world is a wilderness —John Ray’s Proverbs
An acquaintanceship, if all goes well, can linger in the memory like an appealing chord of music, while a friendship, or even a friendship that deteriorates into an enemyship, so to put it, is like a whole symphony, even if the music is frequently unacceptable, broken, loud, and in other ways painful to hear —William Saroyan
Became like old friends, the kind who can’t leave each other on deathbeds —Thomas McGuane
Early friends drop out, like milk teeth —Graham Greene
Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys recorded by art or life —Simone Weil
Friendship … should, like a well-stocked cellar, be … continually renewed —Samuel Johnson
A friendship that like love is warm; a love like friendship steady —Thomas Moore
He who helps a friend in woe is like a fur coat in the snow —Russian proverb
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure —Pietro Aretino