Top 10 Friendship Quotes

1. “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle
3. “A stranger stabs you in the front, a friend stabs you in the back, a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws.” – Unknown
4. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasow
5. “Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.” — Unknown
6. “Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest …It’s about who came, and never left your side.” – Unknown
7. “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Proverb
8. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best of me.” — Henry Ford
9. “Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.” — Belgicia Howell
10. “There comes a point in your life when you realise who really matters, who never did, and who always will.” — Unknown

Friendship Quotes

1. “A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” ~Frances Ward Weller
2. ”A friend in need is a friend indeed.” – Proverb
3. “A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” — Douglas Pagels
4. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” — Elbert Hubbard
5. “A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” — Grace Pulpit
6. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
7. “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” — John D. Rockefeller
8. “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
9. “A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.” — Bil Keane
10. “A joy shared is a joy doubled.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. “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
12. “A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “A single rose can be my garden … a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia
14. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked” – Bernard Meltzer
15. “A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.” — Heather Pryor
16. “A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” — William Penn
17. “Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18. “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” — Abraham Lincoln
19. “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha
20. “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” — George Washington
21. “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
22. “But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
23. “Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.” — Robert Brault
24. “Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.” — Dorothy Parker
25. “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
26. “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
27. “Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine
28. “Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” — Margaret Walker
29. “Friends are born, not made.” — Henry B. Adams
30. “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” — Eustache Deschamps
31. “Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.” — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
32. “Friendship and money: oil and water.” — Mario Puzo
33. “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” — Joseph Addison
34. “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
35. “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
36. “Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.” — Charles Alexander Eastman
37. “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” – Mencius
38. “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
39. “Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.” — Dag Hammarskjold
40. “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
41. “Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it”. – Cicero
42. “Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
43. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young
44. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” — Oscar Wilde
45. “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.” — Henry David Thoreau
47. “I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” — Katherine Mansfield
48. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
49. “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” — Thomas A. Edison
50. “I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” — Robert Brault
51. “If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.” — Samuel Johnson
52. “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. i’ll always be with you.” — Winnie the Pooh
53. “If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” — George MacDonald
54. “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” — Alice Duer Miller
55. “If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
56. “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
57. “In my friend, I find a second self.” — Isabel Norton
58. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
59. “It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
60. “It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.” — Mignon McLaughlin
61. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” — William Blake
62. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” – Epicurus
63. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. “It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich
65. “It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.” – Cicero
66. “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” — John Leonard
67. “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” — Mark Twain
68. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
69. “Life is nothing without friendship.” – Cicero
70. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
71. “Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
72. “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” — Karl Menninge
73. “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.” — Anthony Robbins
74. “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
75. “Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.” — Emil Ludwig
76. “Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
77. “Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.” — Samuel Pepys
78. “Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” — Robert Brault
79. “Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” — Elbert Hubbard
80. “Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.” — Baltasar Gracian
81. “Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.” – Plautus
82. “Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other”. — Honore de Balzac
83. “One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.” — D.H. Lawrence
84. “One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” — Margaret Mead
85. “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
86. “One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.” — E. M. Forster
87. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” — George Santayana
88. “Only a life lived for others is worth living.” — Albert Einstein
89. “Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.” — Robert Brault
90. “Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.” — Robert Brault
91. “She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” — Toni Morrison
92. “Silence is the true friend that never betrays.” – Confucius
93. “Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck
94. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” — Francesco Guicciardini
95. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
96. “Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” — Rod McKuen
97. “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” – Aristotle
98. “The best mirror in the world is an old friend.” — Unknown
99. “The best time to make friends is before you need them.” — Ethel Barrymore
100. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” — William Blake
101. “The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
102. “The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” — David Storey
103. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” — Elbert Hubbard
104. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau
105. “The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, ‘What are you going through?’” — Simone Weil
106. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
107. “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” — Henry David Thoreau
108. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
109. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
110. “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
111. “The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.” — Giotto di Bondone
112. “The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
113. “The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.” — Francis Bacon
114. “There’s nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.” — Diana Dors
115. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
116. “Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” — William Butler Yeats
117. “Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.” — Deng Ming-Dao
118. “’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.” — Benjamin Franklin
119. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” — Brandi Snyder
120. “True friends stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
121. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson Gentry
122. “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” –
     Charles Caleb Colton
123. “True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not.” – Anonymous
124. “Truth springs from argument amongst friends.” — David Hume
125. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
126. “We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn’t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.” — Jeanette Winterson
127. “We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.” — Mignon McLaughlin
128. “We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse.” — Dodinsky
129. “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
130. “We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
131. “What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be – and without having to pretend.” — Robert Brault
132. “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” — George Eliot
133. “What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
134. “What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
135. “When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” — Edward W. Howe
136. “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
137. “When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” — W. Somerset Maugham
138. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
139. “Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
140. “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