Friendship Quotes
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.King Solomon
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.William Butler Yeats
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walker
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.Saint Francis de Sales
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.Henri Nouwen
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.Judy Holliday
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle
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
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!Doug Larson
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.Walt Whitman
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.Friedrich Nietzsche
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.Charles Darwin
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.Herman Melville
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.Jean de La Fontaine
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.Thomas Fuller
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.Plautus
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.Euripides
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.Muhammad Ali
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.Jodie Foster
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.Thomas Aquinas
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.Henry David Thoreau
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.Henri Nouwen
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.Dag Hammarskjold
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.E. W. Howe
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.Paramahansa Yogananda
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.Elbert Hubbard
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.Baltasar Gracian
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.Plutarch
Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.Justin Bieber
Friends are born, not made.Henry Adams
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.Thomas Aquinas
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert H. Humphrey
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.Chanakya
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.Charles R. Swindoll
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.Henry Ford
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.Confucius
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.Pam Brown
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Socrates
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.Marlene Dietrich
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.Aristotle
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.Elbert Hubbard
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.Aristotle
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.Robert Hall
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.Helen Keller
The best time to make friends is before you need them.Ethel Barrymore
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.Henry David Thoreau
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.Helen Keller
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.Ulysses S. Grant
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.Euripides
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.Walter Winchell
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.Francesco Guicciardini
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.Richard Burton
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.Benjamin Franklin
The only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.Albert Camus
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.Margaret Walker
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.W. Somerset Maugham
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.George Washington
True friends stab you in the front.Oscar Wilde
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.Amos Bronson Alcott
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.Epicurus
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.Jim Morrison
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.Bill Watterson
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend to all is a friend to none.Aristotle
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.Sarah Orne Jewett
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.Chanakya
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.Leo Buscaglia
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
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.Elbert Hubbard
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.Jennifer Aniston
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.William Penn
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.Len Wein
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
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.Arnold H. Glasow
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?Abraham Lincoln
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.Robert E. Lee