Friendship Quotes:

  • "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -- Bernard Meltzer.
  • A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings
  • Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -- Cindy Lew
  • Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying
  • "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
    -- Elbert Hubbard
  • "Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
    -- Jewish saying
  • What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle
  • Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
    Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
    Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus
  • "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln
  • Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb
  • "A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
    -- Apocrypha
  • Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.-- Anonymous
  • Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. -- Claude Mermet
  • "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
    -- Baltasar Gracian (1647)
  • "Friendship needs no words..."
    -- Dag Hammarskjold.
  • "Friends are the sunshine of life."
    -- John Hay (1871)
  • "The best mirror is an old friend."
    --George Herbert
  • One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying
  • A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-- Walter Winchell
  • Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. -- Samuel Paterson
  • Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.-- John Evelyn
  • Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.-- Swedish proverb
  • A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Anonymous
  • Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous
  • Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman
  • "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
    -- Pietro Aretino (1537)
  • "There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
    -- Hillaire Belloc
  • "The rain may be falling hard outside,
    But your smile makes it all alright.
    I'm so glad that you're my friend.
    I know our friendship will never end."
    -- Robert Alan
  • "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
    -- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)
  • "Friendship is essentially a partnership."
    -- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)
  • "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
    -- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
  • "A friend loves at all times."
    -- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.
  • "A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
    -- James Boswell (1763)
  • "Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
    -- Eustace Budgell (1711)
  • "Friendship is Love without his wings!"
    -- Lord Byron (1806)
  • "Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
    -- Cicero (44 B.C.)
  • "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
    -- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
  • "Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
    -- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)
  • "Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
    -- Euripides (408 B.C.)
  • "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
    -- Euripides (408 B.C.)
  • "A good friend is my nearest relation."
    -- Thomas Fuller (1732)
  • "My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
    -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  • "Your friend is your needs answered."
    -- Kahil Gibran
  • "Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
    -- Kahil Gibran.
  • "Let your best be for your friend..."
    -- Kahil Gibran
  • "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
    -- Kahil Gibran
  • "A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
    -- Homer (9th century B.C.)
  • "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
    -- Samuel Johnson
  • "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
    -- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
  • "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
    -- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
  • "I shot an arrow into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;
    For so swiftly it flew, the sight
    Could not follow it in its flight.
  • I breathed a song into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;
    For, who has sight so keen and strong
    That it can follow the flight of song?
  • Long, long afterward, in an oak
    I found the arrow, still unbroke;
    And the song, from beginning to end,
    I found again in the heart of a friend."
    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • "You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
    -- Bernard Meltzer
  • "Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." -- Charles Peguy
  • "There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom." -- William Penn
  • "No man is useless while he has a friend." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "A friend is a present you give yourself." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -- Tehyi Hsieh
  • "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain
  • An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.-- Proverbs 24:26
  • "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." -- Len Wein
  • "You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
    -- Woodrow Wilson
  • It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. -- Mary Dixon Thayer
  • A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia
  • Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.
    -Anonymous
  • It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.-- Marlene Dietrich
  • Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
    -Samuel Paterson
  • Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. -- Sicilian Proverb
  • Good friends are good for your health.-Irwin Sarason
  • The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington
  • I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
    - Virginia Woolf
  • Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
    -Sydney Smith
  • In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    -Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
  • It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!-- Doug Larson
  • A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. -- Len Wein
  • Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -- Czech. Proverb
  • Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. -- Thomas Wilson
  • Cute Friendship Quotes
    • Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
    • Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
    • Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
    • You can only go as far as you push.
    • Actions speak louder than words.
    • The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
    • Don't let the past hold you back; you're missing the good stuff.
    • Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might miss it.
    • A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
    • If you think that the world means nothing, think again. You might mean the world to someone else.
    • When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there
    • True friendship never ends.
    • Friends are forever.
    • Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
    • Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.
    • What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?
    • NOBODY IS PERFECT UNTIL YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM. (Isn't that the truth?)
    • Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
    • Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart.
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  • True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
    --Dave Tyson Gentry
  • Friendship is a special kind of love.
    --Unknown
  • The secret to friendship is being a good listener.
    --Unknown
  • Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted.
    --Unknown
  • It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
    --Mignon McLaughlin
  • When you're looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship.
    --Unknown
  • The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
    --Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • True friendship starts the moment one person says to another, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
    --Unknown
  • Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together
    --Unknown
  • Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.
    --E. R. Hazlip.
  • Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
    --Joseph Addison
  • Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
    --George Eliot
  • Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
    --Susan P. Schultz
  • Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
    --Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief
    --Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
    --Joseph Addison
  • I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
    --Anais Nin
  • No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
    --Francis Marion Crawford
  • A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight
    --Unknown
  • A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
    --Mencius
  • The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life without friendship is like the sky without sun.
    --Anonymous
  • Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never
    --Charles Caleb Colton
  • Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.
    --Aristotle
  • A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon
    --Emma Stacey
  • Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
    --Eleanor Roosevelt
  • True friendship is never serene.
    --Marquise de Sevigne