Best friends quotes about friendship by some famous people of their times for you. These friendship quotes will motivate and inspire you and will make you much wiser about the subject.
Best Friends Quotes
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! George Eliot
Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about. ~Author Unknown
Best Friends can turn a horrible day, into one of the best days of your life. ~Nathanael Richmond
Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking. ~Author Unknown
Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier. ~Author Unknown
Best friends: it’s a promise, not a label. ~Author Unknown
Best friends? Well, I guess you could call us that but I think we are more like sisters. ~Author Unknown
A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. ~Author Unknown
A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again. ~Author Unknown
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
A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown
A good friend is my nearest relation. Thomas Fuller
A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away? Ashleigh Brilliant
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. Buddha
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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown
stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws. ~Author Unknown
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. Homer
Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown
You can always tell when two people are best friends because they are having more fun than it makes sense for them to be having. ~Author Unknown
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. Francois Ftnelon
Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. ~Author Unknown
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us. Brigham Young
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that? Monty Python
Let your best be for your friend... Kahlil Gibran
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. Lord Chesterfield
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~Author Unknown
Nothing compares to the pain of a belly ache from laughing too hard with your best friend. ~Author Unknown
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. Titus Maccius Plautus
Ones oldest friend is the best. Titus Maccius Plautus
Talking to your best friend is sometimes all the therapy you need. ~Author Unknown
That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ~Kristin Hannah
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. ~Kristin Hannah
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had. ~Author Unknown
Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. ~Bill Watterson
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
Quotes About Friendship
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. Seneca
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. J. August Strindberg
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. Dumas The Younger
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison
Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended. Anonymous
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it. E.R. Hazlip
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. Anonymous
Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time. Anonymous
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
Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished. Anonymous
Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past. Dorothy Riera
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. George Santayana
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. Charles De Montesquieu
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. William Shakespeare
Friendship is essentially a partnership. Aristotle
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. George Ebers
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. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! Charles Alexander Eastman
Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits. Anonymous
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements. Anonymous
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Friendship is love with understanding. Anonymous
Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. David Grayson
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Mencius
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. Kenneth Branagh
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away. Dinah Mulock Craik
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow T. Wilson
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. Marcus T. Cicero
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean De La Fontaine
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. Thomas Wilson
Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind. Edgar Godospeed
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 isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things. ~Author Unknown
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. Marcus T. Cicero
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. Eric Hoffer
Friendship reaches well above all currency. Robert M. Hensel
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe. John Mason Brown
Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity. Anonymous
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. T. S. Eliot
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. Robert Lynd
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James F. Byrnes
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. Charles Caleb Colton
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. Randolph S. Bourne
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up. George Eliot
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. St. Francis De Sales
Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. Anonymous
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. Nahum Tate
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. Joseph Addison
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
A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends. Anonymous
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. Friedrich Nietzsche
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. Anita Brookner
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare. Anonymous
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. Oscar Wilde
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. Spanish Proverb
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. Ovid
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound. Proverb
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~Dorothy Parker
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ~William Hazlitt
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Sir Richard Burton
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. Indian Proverb
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. William Wycherley
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. Joseph Joubert
He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud. Anonymous
Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures. Anonymous
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia. William James
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive. William Wordsworth
I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other. Lord Byron
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino
I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them. Douglas Fairbanks
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. Samuel Johnson
If I had to sum up friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want. Irish Toast
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Kahlil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~Khalil Gibran
It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare. Anonymous
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
It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. Mary Dixon Thayer
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. Edgar Watson Howe
It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. ~Somerset Maugham
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde
Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it. Simone Weil
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Kahlil Gibran
Life is nothing without friendship. Marcus T. Cicero
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. George Jean Nathan
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Anonymous
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? Emily Bronte
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. Terence
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. Charles Dickens
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
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Robert Southey
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore De Balzac
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. William Hazlitt
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Brooks Adams
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. George Eliot
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. Lois L. Kaufman
Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another. Anonymous
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean De La Fontaine
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. Austin O'Malley
Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24] Bible
More Friendship Quotes
Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend. Grace Noll Crowell
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Francis Quarles
That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience. Charles Bukowski
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake
The endearing elegance of female friendship. Samuel Johnson
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. ~David Storey
The friendship that can cease has never been real. St. Jerome
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. Joseph Addison
The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring. Anonymous
The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands. Anonymous
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Anne Sophie Swetchine
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know. Anonymous
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. Samuel Johnson
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. William Hazlitt
The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it. Julie Holz
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. Eugene Kennedy
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. Buddha
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. Hector Hugh Munro
The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all. Robert Louis Stevenson
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. Charles Dudley Warner
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. Francis Bacon
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. William Hazlitt
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. William Penn
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. Thomas Fuller
There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY. Andrew M. Greeley
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. ~Diana Cortes
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake. William Blake
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit. Anonymous
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. Samuel Johnson
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. David Tyson Gentry
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is never serene. Marie De Rabutin-Chantal
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. Jonathan Swift
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. James Boswell
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend. ~Robert Brault
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus T. Cicero
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog. Miles Franklin
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. Aristotle
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your friendship is a glowing ember through the year; and each December from its warm and living spark we kindle flame against the dark and with its shining radiance light our tree of faith on Christmas night. Thelma J. Lund
Your friendship is your needs answered. Danish Proverb
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail. Jonathan Swift
True Friends Quotes
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Aristotle
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. Doug Larson
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. Len Wein
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasgow
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn
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
When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are. Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough. Chinese Proverb
Hold a true friend with both your hands. Nigerian Proverb
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. Cindy Lew
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley
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
There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend. Anonymous
These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller. Indian Proverb
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life. Sarah Ellis
True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. G. Randolf
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, www.dodinsky.com
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
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
A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown
A good friend is my nearest relation. Thomas Fuller
A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away? Ashleigh Brilliant
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. Buddha
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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus T. Cicero