Friendship Quotes

A collection of FRIENDSHIP Quotes.

The sayings of the old are wise because they have been there. And here are some who shared expressed their thoughts from the path they have walked.

My friends are my estate.

-Emily Dickinson

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

-Henry Ford

“The best mirror is an old friend.”

-George Herbert

 Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:

"What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."

-C. S. Lewis

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”

-C. S. Lewis

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value;

rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

-C. S. Lewis

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

-Elbert Hubbard

"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

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

-William Shakespeare

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

- Aristotle

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

-Aristotle

"A friend to all is a friend to none.”

-Aristotle

"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly,

takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

-William Penn

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

-John Dryden

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

-Helen Keller

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.

I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

If you have an ounce of common sense and

one good friend you don't need an analyst.

-Joan Crawford

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

 You can always tell a real friend:

when you've made a fool of yourself

he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

-Laurence J. Peter

“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 true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg

even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

-Bernard Meltzer

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet

than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

-Richard Bach

"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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

-Abraham Lincoln

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

-Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

"Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty."

-Sicilian Proverb

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

-Kahlil Gibran

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

-Mark Twain

True friendship is like sound health;

the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

-Charles Caleb Colton

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words

but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

-A.A. Milne, 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

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody.

You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

-Truman Capote

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow;

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead;

Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

-Albert Camus

A true friend stabs you in the front.

-Oscar Wilde

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

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

- Louisa May Alcott

“Can miles truly separate you from friends...

If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

- Richard Bach

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

-Walter Winchell

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."

-Benjamin Franklin

Friends are born, not made.

-Henry B. Adams

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

-Margaret Walker

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”

-John D. Rockefeller

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky.

 If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”

- S.E. Hinton