Friendship is the bond that, if true, lasts for an entire lifetime. Indeed, everyone needs a friend to make his life joyous and worthwhile. The relationship between two friends is one of the strongest ones in this world. Experience the essence of true friendship with our collection of friendship quotes. These quotations will help you understand the true meaning of friendship and make your bond grow much stronger than before. You can also use these short friendship sayings to tell your buddies how much they are worth in your life.
Want to read some inspiring and thoughtful friendship quotes. Read this page and get a collection of famous quotations & sayings on friendship.
Friendship Quotes
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?
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The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale |
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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.
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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 |
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
Let your best be for your friend.
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Cicero |
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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino |
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the true source of art, science, and friendship.
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Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
James Fenimore Cooper |
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray.
Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day.
Hilda Brett Farr |
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Let there be no purpose in friendship, save the deepening of the spirit.
Your friend is your needs answered.
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A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.
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Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
Susan Polis Schutz |
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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell |
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman |
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The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
Cali Rae Turner |
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Sisters are probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman |
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul |
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul |
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King |
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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
Stephen King |
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The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
John Williams |
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I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Frida Kahlo |
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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Jerome K. Jerome |
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I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.
Kenny Chesney |
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer |
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Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
Marilyn Manson |
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Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.
James Stewart |
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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake |
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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Louis, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
Humphrey Bogart |
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis, Jr. |
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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
Cher |
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Titus |
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No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Titus |
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda |
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.
Shel Silverstein |
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke |
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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.
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir |
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya |
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville |
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
Hugh Hefner |
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry A. Kissinger |
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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich |
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell |
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when.
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Brigham Young |
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Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Homer |
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer |
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Homer |
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends
Erica Jong |
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - nstead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong |
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn |
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
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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.
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