Friendship quotes

True friends are like diamond—bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style. – Nicole Richie

Friendship’s the wine of life. — Edward Young

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. – Grace Pulpit

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. – Oscar Wilde

 

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

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

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia

In my friend, I find a second self. — Isabel Norton

Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends. —Virginia Woolf

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. – David Tyson

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow T. Wilson

One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine. – Matshona Dhliwayo

Good friends don’t let you do stupid things … alone.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget. – G. Randolf

 

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. — Walter Winchell

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ― Elie Wiesel

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. – Chelsea Handler

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one. — C.S. Lewis

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Girls can survive without a boyfriend, but they can’t survive without a best friend.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. – Confucius

 

Friends are the people who make you smile brighter, laugh louder and live better.

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. ― Oscar Wilde

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. — Oprah Winfrey

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? – Eugene Kennedy

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de la Fontaine

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. – Arnold H. Glasgow

A friend is a gift you give yourself. – Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard

The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Ethel Barrymore

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em. – Shel Silverstein

 

Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need. — A.R. Asher

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
– Jim Henson

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become and still gently allows you to grow. – William Shakespeare

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Shania Twain

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare—and precious as a pearl. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. — Winnie the Pooh

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. — Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left. – Paulo Coelho

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget. – Unknown

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. — Misty Copeland

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. – Henry David Thoreau

Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. – Jim Morrison

 

The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. — Shanna Rodriguez

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. – Irish Proverb

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. — Bill Watterson

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. – Unknown

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing. – Lilian Whiting

There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson

Friendship is a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. – Anna Taylor

 

True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost. – Charles Caleb Colton

Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap. — Anonymous

Friendship is all about trusting each other, helping each other, loving each other and being crazy together. ― O. Henry

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be. – Winnie The Pooh

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. — Dale Carnegie

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. – Abraham Lincoln

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. – Muhammad Ali

 

No friendship is an accident. – O. Henry

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – Arnold H. Glasgow

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. — Amy Poehler

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. – Oscar Wilde

A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen. – Winnie The Pooh

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. – Ed Cunningham

 

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. — Henry Ford

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. — Thomas Moore

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting. – Ian Ziering

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. – George Santayana

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. – Helen Keller

A friend is what the heart needs all the time. – Henry van Dyke

Dear best friend: just a daily reminder that you are beautiful and I love you.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. – Euripides

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. – Kahlil Gibran

True friendship is like phosphorescence—it glows best when the world around you goes dark. – Denise Martin

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. – Socrates

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. – Jim Henson

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. – George Eliot

 

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. – Bill Watterson

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. – Clifton Fadiman

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. – Chelsea Handler

Man’s best support is a very dear friend. – Cicero

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. – Leo F. Buscaglia

Forever friends are a treasure chest of understanding and compassion. Cherish them. – Amy Leigh Mercree

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next — Dean Koontz

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of. – Jodie Foster

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. – Francesco Guicciardini

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ― Aristotle

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years — Richard Bach

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. – John Leonard

 

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. – Octavia Butler

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. — Proverbs 27:9

And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ― Elie Wiesel

Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them‰Û your smile, your hope and your courage. – Doe Zantamata

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. – Alexander Dumas

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. – Zig Ziglar

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable. — Aidan Chambers

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse

Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life. – Nathanael Richmond

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. – Katherine Mansfield