Quotes about friendship

I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Friendship'.

• 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)
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. (William Blake)
• Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. 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)
• Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. (Robert Brault)
• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. (Katherine Mansfield)
• No road is long with good company. (Turkish Proverb)
• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John Churton Collins)
• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. (Unknown)
• A garden is a friend you can visit anytime. (Unknown)
• True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically. (Unknown)
• Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. (Alexander Dumas)
• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. (Unknown)
• Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. (Maya Angelou)
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
• 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. (Unknown)
• Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that. (Ally Condie)
• Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends. (Virginia Woolf)
• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. (Leo Buscaglia)
• 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)
• Let's swear each with our pinky, we'll be the best of friends, until we are old and wrinkly! (Unknown)
• Remember no man is a failure who has friends. (Frank Capra)
• 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)
• Best Friends can turn a horrible day, into one of the best days of your life. (Nathanael Richmond)
• I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. (Jon Katz)
• 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. (Unknown)
• Nothing compares to the pain of a belly ache from laughing too hard with your best friend. (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) [Firefly Lane]
• A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. (Frances Ward Weller)
• 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)
• Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. (Bill Watterson)
• It takes a long time to grow an old friend. (John Leonard)
• You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years of trying to get them interested in you. (Charles Allen)
• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is 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)
• Friends are the family you choose. (Jess C. Scott)
• A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you'll never smile again. (Unknown)
• 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)
• 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)
• Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. (Aesop) [Aesop's Fables]
• There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. (Linda Grayson)
• There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. (Linda Grayson) [The Pickwick Papers]
• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. (Socrates)
• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. (Unknown)
• Celebrate the happiness friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living. (Amanda Bradley)
• Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. (Muhammad Ali)
• In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. (Elisabeth Foley)
• Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about. (Unknown)
• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. (Barbara Kingsolver)
• A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. (Heather Pryor)
• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. (C.S. Lewis)
• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. (Donna Roberts)
• Nature teaches beasts to know their friends [from the play Coriolanus]
• Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. (Dalai Lama)
• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. (Plutarch)
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. (Charles Lamb)
• A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. (Grace Pulpit)
• We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. (Roderick Thorp)
• 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. (Unknown)
• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. (Woodrow T. Wilson)
• 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. (Octavia Butler)
• True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. (David Tyson Gentry)
• It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. (Margaret Thatcher)
• Talking to your best friend is sometimes all the therapy you need. (Unknown)
• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• There comes a point in your life when you realize: who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. So don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to our future. (Adam Lindsay Gordon)
• Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there. (Unknown)
• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. (Henry Ford)
• A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. (Unknown)
• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• 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)
• It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. (Marlene Dietrich)
• A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. (William Arthur Ward)
• Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus) Click here for illustrated quote
• The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. (Elbert Hubbard)
• 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 one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. (William Shakespeare)
• A real friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be on your way down. (Wayne Dyer)
• If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. (Samuel Butler)
• 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)
• Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. (Sicilian Proverb)
• If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. (Unknown)
• Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. (Emily Kimbrough)
• Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. (Unknown)
• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. (Dale Carnegie)
• Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. (Unknown)
• Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier. (Unknown)
• There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. (Unknown)
• Do not save your loving speeches, for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them now instead. (Anna Cummins)

 

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Jayne Herbert - Penzance - Cornwall