Friendship Quotes

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. - Cindy Lew

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.- Albert Camus

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. - Abraham Lincoln

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. - Anonymous

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. - Apocrypha

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian

Friends are the sunshine of life. - John Hay

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. - Hasidic Saying

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard 

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. - Samuel Paterson

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. - John Evelyn

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 

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. - Fr. Jerome Cummings

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. - Swedish proverb

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

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Anonymous

Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. - Lois L. Kaufman

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. – Aristotle

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

Friendship is essentially a partnership. – Aristotle

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

Friendship needs no words... - Dag Hammarskjold.

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

The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W. Somerset Maugham

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. - Lois L. Kaufman

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasow 

A friend loves at all times. - The Holy Bible

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. - James Boswell

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. - Baltasar Gracian

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. – Euripides

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 

A good friend is my nearest relation. - Thomas Fuller

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. - Katherine Mansfield

Your friend is your needs answered. - Kahil Gibran

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

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

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. - Jewish Saying

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. - Dag Hammarskjold

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 

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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. - Charles Peguy

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

A friend is a present you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. - William Penn

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. - Giotto di Bondone

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose. - Tehyi Hsieh

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

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. - Woodrow Wilson

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's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter. - Marlene Dietrich

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. - Margaret Walker 

Let your best be for your friend... - Kahil Gibran

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. - Sicilian Proverb

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas A. Edison

Good friends are good for your health. - Irwin Sarason

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. - Sydney Smith

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. - Mahatma Gandhi

Friends are born, not made. - Henry B. 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 Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle 

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! - Doug Larson

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -- Czech. Proverb

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. - Thomas Aquinas