Friendship Quotes

See also Best Friends, Friendship Poemsand Friendship Pages (includes short quotes).

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Anyone can give advice, but a real friend will lend a helping hand.
Anyone can tell you it won't hurt tomorrow. I'm here to listen while it hurts today.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. (Chilo)
Be thou blest with what heaven can send. Long life, much joy, and a friend.
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it will get you the right ones.
Being with you is one of my favorite things to do.
The best antiques to collect are old friends.
Blessings come in many ways, the nicest come as friends.
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? (Richard Bach)
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Count you life by smiles, not tears.
Count you age by friends, not years.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. (Richard Bach)
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. (Anais Nin)
Even though our lives have changed a lot since we first became friends . . . I'm so glad our friendship has grown along with us.
Even though we're far apart, you're always in my heart.
Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you . . . you will find the strength to help.
Every good friend once was a stranger.
A faithful friend is a source of strength; whoever finds one has found a treasure. (Sirach 6:14)
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend is a gift you give yourself. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
A friend is one before whom you can think aloud.
A friend is someone who can put a finger on your faults without rubbing it in.
A friend is someone who chooses you out of a whole world of people
A friend is someone who does things that count, but never stops to count them.
A friend is a person who knows your sensitive spots but will never poke you there.
A friend is a person who listens attentively while you say nothing.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. (Douglas Pagels)
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself. (Barbara Burrow)
A friend is someone who is really glad when you succeed.
A friend is someone who knows who you are, understands where you've been, accepts who you have become and still gently invites you to grow.
A friend is someone who loves you anyway.
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today.
A friend is someone whose smile helps when the roads are rough and long.
A friend is someone you can do nothing with and really enjoy it.
A friend is someone you can trade secrets with and never worry.
A friend is the one who is already there doing it when every one else is saying, "Is there anything I can do?"
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
A friend loveth at all times. (Proverbs 17:17)
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A friend means well, even when he hurts you. But when an enemy puts his hand round your shoulder--watch out! (Proverbs 27:6)
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. (James Russell Lowell)
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Friends are a lot like the sun--dependable and warm, and they brighten your day.
Friends are always at home in our hearts.
Friends are flowers that never fade.
Friends are God's life preservers.
Friends are God's way of taking care of us.
Friends are kept forever in the heart.
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Friends are lights in winter; the older the friendship, the brighter the light. (Roger Roseblatt)
Friends are like siblings that God forgot to give us.
Friends are like wine; they get better with age.
Friends are made in wine and proved in tears.
Friends are never far apart--in the heart.
Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Friends are the family we find along the way.
Friends are the umbrellas in the storms of life.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. (Ed Cunningham)
Friends are those who've heard the worst about us, yet refuse to believe it.
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. (Charlie Krueger)
A friend's eye is a good mirror. (Irish Proverb)
Friends know the art of giving the heart.
Friends make memories. The heart preserves them.
Friends pick you up when the world lets you down.
Friends share the joy and divide the sorrow.
Friendship can bloom into a brilliantly colored flower with enough water and sunshine. (Katrina Plum)
Friendship consists of forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. (Alexandre Dumas)
Friendship has no name but Love.
Friendship is a gift with strings attached--heartstrings!
Friendship is a knot that angel hands have tied.
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.
Friendship is a rainbow between two people.
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 always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. (Kahlil Gibran)
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)
Friendship is God's special way of loving us through someone else.
Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits!
Friendship is not a big thing--its a million little things.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Friendship is telling someone what they don't have the courage to tell themselves.
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. Its not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. (Muhammad Ali)
Friendship is the thread that ties all hearts together.
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.
Friendship requires compromise without feeling compromised.
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.
Friendship--the loving acceptance of another's uniqueness.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. (James F. Byrnes)
Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods. (Esther M. Clark)
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
God chooses our families, we choose our friends
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)
Good friends are like angels--you don't have to see them to know they are there.
Good friends are like quilts, they never lose their warmth.
Good friends are like stars . . . You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!
A good friend is like an oasis in the desert. (Old Chinese Proverb)
Good friends are never forgotten, they live within your heart.
A good long talk with a friend can cure almost anything.
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (Mark Twain)
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)
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)
Happy is the heart that holds a friend.
The harmony between friends is sweeter than any choir.
Heart strings are the bows that tie the gift of friendship.
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship. (Proverbs 24:26)
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! (Mary Ann Evans writing as George Eliot)
A hug is the shortest distance between friends.
I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my friends.
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. Friends make life a lot more fun.
I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them. (Loretta Claiborn, Special Olympics athlete)
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. (Plutarch)
I realize how hard it is to be my friend right now, but knowing I have your support is making my life so much easier.
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.
I traveled to the rainbow's end, and found not gold, but you, my friend.
If anyone should ask me to give a reason why I loved my friend, there could only be one answer: 'Because he was he, and I was I'.
If friendship were a color, you would be the rainbow to me.
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)
If it's 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)
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. (Charlotte Bronte)
If you can buy a person's friendship, it is not worth it.
I'll never forget that you believed in me...even when I didn't believe in myself.
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)
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. (Solon)
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 so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. (Epicurus)
It takes a long time to grow old friends.
It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset. (Erynn Miller)
It's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.
Judgment and fear makes strangers out of people who should be friends.(Cameron Koo)
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
The language of friendship is not words, but meaning. It is intelligence above language. (Henry David Thoreau)
Laughter, acceptance, love...these are the things I think of whenever I think of you, my friend.
Life's hard journey can be endured if we travel hand in hand.
Listening is just as important as talking.
Loneliness shared becomes love; sorrow shared becomes comfort.
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
Love is blind. Friendship is clairvoyant.
Magic is when two friends walk in opposite directions but still stay side by side.
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)
Many joys come and go but friendship is forever.
Many people will walk in and out of your life--but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Carl Jung)
Memories are the threads that hold together the patchwork of friendship.
Moments spent with a friend are the kind we wish would never end.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. (Shirley MacLaine)
The more you love, the more you'll find,
That life is good and friends are kind!
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? (Henry David Thoreau)
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are. (B.A. Billingsley)
My true friend is he who loves me for what I inwardly am and not for what I outwardly have.
Never abandon an old friend. You will never find one who can take his place. Friendship is like wine; it gets better as it grows older.
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)
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. (Thomas Fuller)
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. (Epicurus)
Of all the treasures on this earth, friends are the most precious
Of course there is such things as angels. Only sometimes they don't have wings, and we call them friends!
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Old shoes and old friends are best for relaxing.
On the road between the homes of friends, grass does not grow.
One awesome thing about Eeyore is that even though he is always depressed, he still gets invited to participate in adventure with his friends. They never expect him to pretend to be happy, they never leave him behind or ask him to change. They just show him love.
One loyal friend is worth 10,000 relatives. (Euripides)
One of the greatest treasures life ever sends, is the special feeling between the hearts of friends.
One old friend is better than two new ones. (Yiddish Proverb)
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. (George Santayana)
Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.
Our friendship is like a cup of tea, a special blend of you and me.
Our hearts are next door neighbors though our homes are miles apart
Our paths may change as life goes along, but the bond between friends remains ever strong.
Priceless treasure of the heart...
true friends will never part.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. (Mark Twain)
A real friend is one who overlooks your broken down gate, and admires the flowers in your garden!
Priceless treasure of the heart...
true friends will never part.
Real friends listen with their hearts.
A reassuring presence, a light when times are dark, a hand reaching out, is what friendship is about.
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. (Emily Kimbrough)
Right next door, or miles apart,
friends are always close at heart.
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)
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. (Margaret Lee Runbeck)
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. (Francesco Guicciardini)
Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers. (Proverbs 18:24)
Some people make the world special by just being in it.
Sometimes a library of words can't say what a hug from a friend can.
Sometimes I wonder what life is all about...then I think of friends like you and I know.
Sometimes it's hard to ask others for help...but I promise to ask you if you promise to ask me.
Sometimes there are no perfect words...only thoughtful silences that whisper softly of caring.
Sow the seeds of kindness, and reap a bounty of friends.
'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. (Louisa May Alcott)
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Thank you for being the kind of friend I can count on!
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. (Socrates)
There is nothing on this earth to be more prized than true friendship. (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
There's enough warmth in a friend's hug to warm up the coldest day
Thinking of you is something nice that I do for myself!
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. (Francis Bacon)
This the privilege of friendship, to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.
Those who judge, don't matter...those who matter, don't judge.
Time may pass and we may part--
but true friends stay close at heart!
To be a friend, it helps to bend.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him. (Feodor Dostoevsky)
To the world, you may just be one person...but to one person, you might just be the world.
Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. (Joshua Loth Liebman)
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give those who love you a chance to love you enough. (Dinah Shore)
A true friend is here today...and here tomorrow.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! (Doug Larson)
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be falling down. (Arnold Glasow)
True friends live in our hearts forever.
A true friendship is a treasure that can never be lost. I'm so glad we found each other!
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. (Charles Caleb Colton)
True friendship is like a star. You don't see its light in the brightness of prosperity, but in the darkness of adversity.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. (Ecclesiastes)
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)
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other. (Lucian de Croszonza)
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)
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. (Benjamin Franklin)
We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. (Jacques Maritain)
We may be blinded by our own perceived flaws, but those who love us have clearer vision. (Sarah Ban Breathnach)
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him. (Montaigne)
We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. (Thomas Fuller)
What a wretched lot of old shriveled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship. (Mary Ann Evans writing as George Eliot)
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. (Edgar Watson Howe)
When hands reach out in friendship, hearts are touched with joy.
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
When I think of you, I smile inside.
When riding through the tide of time and thinking of the past,
remember that you have a friend who will forever last.
When you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell them so.
Wherever we are it is our FRIENDS that make our WORLD. (William James)
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. (Aristotle)
With more understanding and better communication, we can meet in the middle and walk the rest of the way together.
Without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. (Aristotle)
The world is a better place because you're in it!
Yes'm, old friends is best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. (Sarah Orne Jewett)
You abandon and abuse yourself every time you say yes when you want to say no. You call it loyalty, love, or friendship. But really, you�re just hoping someone will see how amazing you are and choose you. It doesn't work that way. Choose yourself. That�s how you teach them . . . by choosing you.
You are a special person who knows how to care and be a friend who values others as they are. No wonder you mean so much to me.
You are the calm at the center of my storm.
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul. (Ivan Turgenev)
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. (Oscar Wilde)
Your friendship's like a touch of spring that warms and brightens everything.
Your smile is sunshine, your laughter is contagious, your friendship is priceless!

Humorous Friendship Quotes

Acquaintances may pass, but friendships endure...And you've been enduring me for some time now.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. (Albert Camus)
Facebook is proof that you're never too old to have imaginary friends.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
A friend who cannot in a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. (Samuel Butler)
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
A friend is a person who says nice things about you behind your back.
A friend is someone who knows all about you but loves you anyway.
A friend is someone who likes you even after they get to know you.
Friends are God's ways of apologizing for our families.
Friendship: a close personal relationship between two individuals who share the pain of their hardships, details of their courtships, and the last of their potato chips!
God gave us our relatives: thank God we can choose our friends. (Ethel Watts Mumford)
Having a friend like you...means not having a huge bill from an analyst!
I don't know what I ever did to deserve a friend like you...But it must have been really great!
I like being with you! We can talk about all kinds of things--and none of them are for my own good.
I'm at that point in the day where I'm tired of myself, she said, so if you don't mind, I'm going to be someone else until bedtime. We had a lovely time together, my new friend and I. (Brian Andreas)
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girl friends. (Laurie Kuslansky)
No matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't think you've done a permanent job.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
Someday we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.
An understanding friend is better than a therapist; and cheaper too!
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
We will always be friends...because you know too much!
When a stranger identifies you from a friend's description, it's just as well you didn't hear the description.
When you're too busy for friends...you're TOO busy!