The Best and Amazing Quotes and Sayings on Friendship

Friendship Quotes

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

― Elie Wiesel 

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."

Oscar Wilde

"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

"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

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

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

Aristotle

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

Khalil Gibran

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

"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

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

"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it."

Zora Neale Hurston

"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

"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."

Anais Nin

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

Charles Caleb Colton

 

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."

Euripides

 

"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."

Baltasar Gracian

 

"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."

Baltasar Gracian

 

"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Washington Irving

 

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

Walter Winchell
 

"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 E. Butler

 

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

Katherine Mansfield

"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 Eastman

"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."

E. W. Howe

 

"My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of."

Jodie Foster

"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

"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."

Baltasar Gracian

"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Hilaire Belloc

"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't."

Judy Holliday

"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

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

Marlene Dietrich

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

Doug Larson

"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."

E. W. Howe

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

Giotto di Bondone

"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

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."

Petrarch

"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

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

Saint Teresa of Avila

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"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."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

 “Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”

― Epicurus, A Guide To Happiness