Friendship Quotes and Sayings
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Friends are born, not made. Henry B. Adams
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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
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas
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A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
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The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. Giotto di Bondone
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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
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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
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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
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
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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
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich
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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
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus
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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Baltasar Gracian
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard
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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
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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
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A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane
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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
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham
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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
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius
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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
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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
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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. Henri Nouwen
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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
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Samuel Pepys
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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
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
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Friendship and money: oil and water. Mario Puzo
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller
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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
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Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana
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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
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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington
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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
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Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
