Friendship Quotes

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath 
found such an one hath found a treasure.
 - Ecclesiasticus 6:14

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which 
there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more 
personal liking.
 - George Eliot

Dreams are wishes cast upon stars, so catch a shining one,
take your friend's hand and hold on forever
 - Traci Brown

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and 
beautiful things of life.
 - James F. Byrnes

If I'm not good enough to be a friend
Than, you need to like your self first
Cause there is nothing wrong with me.
 - Karen S.Magee

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold 
himself.
        - Marjorie Holmes

I chose a friend because I needed a friend, if I had wanted 
a knife I would have bought one.
 - Unknown

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and 
without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become 
tedious.
 - St. Thomas Aquinas

In a friend you find a second self.
 - Isabelle Norton

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering 
what one receives.
 - Dumas The Younger

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in 
their best light.
 - Jennie Jerome Churchill

It is not so much our friend's help that helps us, as the 
confidence of their help.
 - Epicurus

Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world.  
 -  Henry James

I never had better friends than the friends I had when I was 
twelve. Jesus, does anyone?
 - Stand By Me

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by 
adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot 
congeal in winter.
 - James Fenimore Cooper

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

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the 
goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
     - Ann Landers

A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so 
good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're 
not so bad.  
 - Anonymous

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each 
other to persevere in the road to a happier life. 
        - Pythagoras (582BC-507BC) Greek mathemetician, philosopher

Silence makes the real conversation between friends.  Not the 
saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
 - Anonymous

Our best friends are those who know their faults well enough 
to forgive us ours.
 - Moulton H. Farnham

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about 
yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend 
who loves you dearly.
 - Antisthenes

When you are too busy for friends, you are too busy.
 - Unknown

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

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can 
grow separately without growing apart.
     - Elisabeth Foley

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
 - Kahlil Gibran

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap 
for the favor of the kings of the world. 
 - Thomas Edison

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of
ones heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands 
will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a 
breath of kindness, blow and rest away.
 - George Eliot
 
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to 
be stupid with them.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
 - Billie Holiday

We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
 - Winnie the Pooh

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of 
honey left inside.
 - A.A. Milne

I get by with a little help from my friends. 
 -John Lennon

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet 
never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
 -Mary Catherwood

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has 
no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value 
to survival.
 -C. S. Lewis

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me 
to do up a parcel.
 -Logan Pearsall Smith

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. 
 -Abraham Lincoln

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, 
encourage me to grow.
 -Cher

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. 
 -Mencius

True friendship is never serene. 
 -Mariede Svign

It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. 
 -Marlene Dietrick

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

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it 
requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
 -Oscar Wilde

The best mirror is an old friend. 
 -George Herbert

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real. 
 -Saint Jerome

I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring 
my good friends.
 -William Shakespeare

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, 
the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
 -Thomas Jefferson

Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For, thus friends 
absent speak.
 -John Donne

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, 
trusted to the end.
 -John Boyle O'Reilly

Friends have all things in common.
 -Plato

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all 
other goods. 
 -Artistotle

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. 
 -Henry Ford

It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and 
auspicious bird of calm...
 -Shelly

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. 
 -Wilson Mizner

A friend is one who believes in you when you have
ceased to believe in yourself.
        - Unknown

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the 
anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
        - Robert Southey (1774-1843)

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love 
of friends.
        - Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) English writer, poet 

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant 
the most.
        - Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956) US women's golfer

Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there
and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.
        - Al Unser, Jr. (1962-) US auto racer

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may 
think aloud.
          - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
 
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
          - Fr. Jerome Cummings

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your 
successes.
          - Doug Larson

He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends,
loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.
 -Spanish Maxim

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
 -Marcus Tullius Cicero

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 haven't really 
learned anything.
 -Muhammad Ali

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the 
unforgivable.
 -John D. MacDonald

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you 
meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand 
years. 
 - Richard Bach,  Illusions

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

He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, 
While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere.
 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
 -Bumper Sticker

Never forget your friends, they are your roots to life, and 
with the memories lost, you will just blow in the wind...
 -Christopher Allen Weller

My friends are my estate. 
 - Emily Dickinson

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to 
exchange small favors for big ones.
 -Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)

He who seeks a friend without fault remains without.  
 -Old Turkish Proverb 

Friendship consists of only one soul; inhabiting two bodies.
        - Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it 
for my sake.
        - Aristotle

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is 
full of friends.
        - Euripides

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost 
thoughts in another.
        - Oliver Schreiner

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

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is 
seldom known until it be lost.
        - Charles Caleb Colton

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind 
me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
        - Albert Camus

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
       -Unknown

Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.
       -Unknown

Friends are God's way of taking care of us.
       -Unknown

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
       -Stone Temple Pilots

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
       -Dave Matthews Band

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with
them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
       -Unknown

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best
friends listen to what you don't say.
       -Unknown

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, 
we take a little of each other everywhere.
       - Tim McGraw

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five 
real friends, then you've had a great life.
       -Lee Iacocca

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

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

Count your age with friends but not with years.
        - Anonymous