Friendship Quotes

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."

"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party."

"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."

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."

"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."

"Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different."

"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."

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."

"Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party."

"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."

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."

"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."

"Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different."

"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."

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."

"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."

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"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."

"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."

"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage."

"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family."

"In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

"I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side."

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

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

"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."

"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?"

"He who hath many friends hath none."

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

"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."

"All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire."

"Your friend is your needs answered."

"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."

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

"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."

"Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have."

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."

"If you have one true friend, you have more than your share."

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

"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."

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."

"Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship."

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day."

"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"Value your friendship. Value your relationships."

"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands."

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

"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?"

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

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

"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."

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

"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."

"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."

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

"Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community."

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

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

"My friends are my estate."

"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."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"True friends stab you in the front."

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"

"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated."

"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

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

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation."

"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree."

"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."

"Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots."

"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

"Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace."

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"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."

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

"Love is a friendship set to music."

"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when."

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

"I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship."

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

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends"

"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

"A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."