309 Friendship Quotes
1. "Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Click to tweet
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2. "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
3. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." (Elbert Hubbard) Click to tweet
4. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them." (Jim Morrison) Click to tweet
5. "Friendship is a sheltering tree." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Click to tweet
6. "I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better." (Abraham Lincoln) Click to tweet
7. "True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Click to tweet
8. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
9. "A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
10. "I have learned that to be with those i like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Click to tweet
11. "Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
12. "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; i to my friends." (Virginia Woolf) Click to tweet
13. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
14. "It’s not what we have, but who we have." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
15. "One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine." (Matshona Dhliwayo) Click to tweet
16. "The language of friendship is not words but meanings." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
17. "There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met." (William Butler Yeats) Click to tweet
18. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Click to tweet
19. "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
20. "How distant i am from people when i am with them, and how close when they are far away." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
21. "Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives." (Alexander Dumas) Click to tweet
22. "“stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary." (Louisa May Alcott) Click to tweet
23. "Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words." (George Eliot) Click to tweet
24. "My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of." (Jodie Foster) Click to tweet
25. "Man’s best support is a very dear friend." (Cicero) Click to tweet
26. "A friend is a gift you give yourself." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet
27. "There cannot be friendship without equality." (Swami Sivananda) Click to tweet
28. "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) Click to tweet
29. "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) Click to tweet
30. "Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
31. "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Click to tweet
32. "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth." (Herman Melville) Click to tweet
33. "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Click to tweet
34. "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have." (Irish Proverb) Click to tweet
35. "A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth." (Charles Darwin) Click to tweet
36. "The friendship which can cease has never been real." (St. Jerome) Click to tweet
37. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." (Woodrow Wilson) Click to tweet
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38. "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." (Samuel Butler) Click to tweet
39. "Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet
40. "Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times."Click to tweet
41. "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) Click to tweet
42. "Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘i’m here for you,’ and proved it."Click to tweet
43. "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication." (Anna Deavere Smith) Click to tweet
44. "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) Click to tweet
45. "Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality." (Rowan Williams) Click to tweet
46. "Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." (Thomas Aquinas) Click to tweet
47. "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
48. "The only way to have a friend is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
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49. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." (Audrey Hepburn) Click to tweet
50. "Do i not destroy my enemies when i make them my friends?" (Abraham Lincoln) Click to tweet
51. "If you have one true friend you have more than your share." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
52. "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." (Herodotus) Click to tweet
53. "As soon as i saw you, i knew an adventure was going to happen." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
54. "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
55. "We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, pooh? Asked piglet. Even longer. Pooh answered." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
56. "I get by with a little help from my friends." (The Beatles) Click to tweet
57. "My friends are my estate." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet
58. "Friends are proved by adversity." (Cicero) Click to tweet
59. "We cannot hope to only leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend." (George H. W. Bush) Click to tweet
60. "A friend to all is a friend to none." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
61. "Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." (Socrates) Click to tweet
62. "Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself." (Confucius) Click to tweet
63. "Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship." (Dorothy Parker) Click to tweet
64. "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet
65. "A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
66. "Life is nothing without friendship." (Cicero) Click to tweet
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67. "True friendships are eternal." (Cicero) Click to tweet
68. "Friends are the family you choose."Click to tweet
69. "Friendship = vulnerability * time." (Sahil Lavingia) Click to tweet
70. "No friendship is an accident." (O. Henry) Click to tweet
71. "Truth springs from argument amongst friends." (David Hume) Click to tweet
72. "Love is friendship on fire." (Susan Sontag) Click to tweet
73. "Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."Click to tweet
74. "Opposition is true friendship." (William Blake) Click to tweet
75. "Between friends, words are optional."Click to tweet
76. "Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff." (May Sarton) Click to tweet
77. "Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word."Click to tweet
78. "The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two." (Sophie Swetchine) Click to tweet
79. "The best mirror is an old friend." (George Herbert) Click to tweet
80. "Friendship is essentially a partnership." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
81. "There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself." (William Hazlitt) Click to tweet
82. "The secret to friendship is being a good listener."Click to tweet
83. "Friendships are discovered rather than made." (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Click to tweet
84. "The best cure for a bad day is a good friend."Click to tweet
85. "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." (Jean de La Fontaine) Click to tweet
86. "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." (Charles Dickens) Click to tweet
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87. "You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist." (Indira Gandhi) Click to tweet
88. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
89. "Friendship is more than being there for your friends when they need you, it’s also allowing your friends to be there for you." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
90. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." (Walter Winchell) Click to tweet
91. "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) Click to tweet
92. "One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention." (Clifton Fadiman) Click to tweet
93. "We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
94. "If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone." (Maxwell Maltz) Click to tweet
95. "When was the last time you asked your friend how he/she was doing?" (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
96. "If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, i’ll stay there forever." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
97. "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth." (Thomas Sowell) Click to tweet
98. "Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
99. "Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead." (Anna Cummins) Click to tweet
100. "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life." (Jean de La Fontaine) Click to tweet
101. "The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." (Cicero) Click to tweet
102. "There is nothing i would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." (Jane Austen) Click to tweet
103. "To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." (Theodore H. White) Click to tweet
104. "Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking." (George Eliot) Click to tweet
105. "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
106. "Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day." (Charlotte Bronte) Click to tweet
107. "The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people." (Nicholas Sparks) Click to tweet
108. "Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." (Amy Poehler) Click to tweet
109. "Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good." (Pope John Paul II) Click to tweet
110. "When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
111. "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
112. "Friendship is held to be the severest test of character." (Charles Eastman) Click to tweet
113. "It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." (Marlene Dietrich) Click to tweet
114. "The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
115. "A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." (Saint Francis de Sales) Click to tweet
116. "Your friend is your needs answered." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
117. "I love how badass we think we are when we’re together."Click to tweet
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118. "Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
119. "Friendship is love minus sex plus reason: love is friendship plus sex minus reason."Click to tweet
120. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." (Linda Grayson) Click to tweet
121. "I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me." (Toni Morrison) Click to tweet
122. "I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends… they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights." (Oscar Levant) Click to tweet
123. "The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet
124. "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) Click to tweet
125. "I like to hang out with people who make me forget to look at my phone."Click to tweet
126. "No one will ever be as entertained by us as us."Click to tweet
127. "True friendship is when you walk into their house and your wifi connects automatically."Click to tweet
128. "There are small ships and big ships but the best ships are friendships."Click to tweet
129. "The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before he comes over."Click to tweet
130. "Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive."Click to tweet
131. "We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall i will pick you up after i finish laughing."Click to tweet
132. "The friendship of one intelligent man is better than that of all the unintelligent." (Democritus) Click to tweet
133. "Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used." (Elbert Hubbard) Click to tweet
134. "The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet
135. "A day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
136. "The older i get the more selective i am of who is in my tribe. I would rather have four quarters than a hundred pennies."Click to tweet
137. "You are i are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang."Click to tweet
138. "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success." (Doug Larson) Click to tweet
139. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time." (Henry Van Dyke) Click to tweet
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140. "‘stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary." (Amos Bronson Alcott) Click to tweet
141. "Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) Click to tweet
142. "If you live to be 100, i hope i live to be 100 minus 1 day, so i never have to live without you." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
143. "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet
144. "If i had a flower for every time i thought of you… i could walk through my garden forever." (Alfred Tennyson) Click to tweet
145. "There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
146. "Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." (Georgia O’Keeffe) Click to tweet
147. "We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones." (Hafiz of Persia) Click to tweet
148. "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." (Ray Bradbury) Click to tweet
149. "A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world." (Leo Buscaglia) Click to tweet
150. "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." (William Blake) Click to tweet
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151. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Click to tweet
152. "What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
153. "Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them." (Publius Syrus) Click to tweet
154. "Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance." (Rabindranath Tagore) Click to tweet
155. "Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue." (Cicero) Click to tweet
156. "We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young." (Letty Cottin Pogrebin) Click to tweet
157. "In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart." (Cicero) Click to tweet
158. "It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." (Confucius) Click to tweet
159. "We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them." (Charles Caleb Colton) Click to tweet
160. "He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies." (William Hazlitt) Click to tweet
161. "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
162. "It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
163. "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 Miller) Click to tweet
164. "Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad."Click to tweet
165. "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
166. "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
167. "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) Click to tweet
168. "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." (John Churton Collins) Click to tweet
169. "This is my beloved and this is my friend." (Song of Solomon) Click to tweet
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170. "Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never." (Charles Caleb Colton) Click to tweet
171. "Love is a friendship set to music." (Joseph Campbell) Click to tweet
172. "Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love." (Jane Austen) Click to tweet
173. "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." (Hubert H. Humphrey) Click to tweet
174. "Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring the most basic part of love." (Ed Cunningham) Click to tweet
175. "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." (Ann Landers) Click to tweet
176. "A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." (Saint Basil) Click to tweet
177. "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." (Elie Wiesel) Click to tweet
178. "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." (Ella Wheeler Wilcox) Click to tweet
179. "Love everyone with a deep love based on charity, but form friendships only with those who can share virtuous things with you. The higher the virtues you share and exchange with others, the more perfect your friendship will be." (Francis de Sales) Click to tweet
180. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
181. "The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… . A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words." (Rachel Naomi Remen) Click to tweet
182. "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation." (Samuel Richardson) Click to tweet
183. "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." (Oliver Goldsmith) Click to tweet
184. "Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." (Lord Byron) Click to tweet
185. "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) Click to tweet
186. "The verb ‘to love’ in persian is ‘to have a friend’. ‘i love you’ translated literally is ‘i have you as a friend’." (Shusha Guppy) Click to tweet
187. "There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
188. "Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." (Cicero) Click to tweet
189. "Love is friendship set on fire." (Jeremy Taylor) Click to tweet
190. "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." (Baltasar Gracián) Click to tweet
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191. "Friendship is infinitely better than kindness." (Cicero) Click to tweet
192. "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" (George Eliot) Click to tweet
193. "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and i have received it." (Hubert H. Humphrey) Click to tweet
194. "A friend is someone you can share your incomplete thoughts with. People need a private space where they can speak and refine their “work in progress” thinking." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
195. "If you set out to do what you really want to do, you may lose a lot of friends but you will not lose a single friend who is worth having." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
196. "There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living." (Don Marquis) Click to tweet
197. "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company." (Booker T. Washington) Click to tweet
198. "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) Click to tweet
199. "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." (Anais Nin) Click to tweet
200. "We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy." (Arthur Ashe) Click to tweet
201. "If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) Click to tweet
202. "The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, ‘what are you going through?’" (Simone Weil) Click to tweet
203. "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) Click to tweet
204. "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James f." (Byrnes) Click to tweet
205. "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
206. "That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end." (Francis Quarles) Click to tweet
207. "Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend." (Sarah Dessen) Click to tweet
208. "How lucky i am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
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209. "Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul." (Steve Maraboli) Click to tweet
210. "Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace." (Christie Brinkley) Click to tweet
211. "Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving." (Osho) Click to tweet
212. "I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." (Katherine Mansfield) Click to tweet
213. "The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference." (Audre Lorde) Click to tweet
214. "I often find myself saying a little prayer of thanks for you."Click to tweet
215. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." (Marcel Proust) Click to tweet
216. "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." (Cicero) Click to tweet
217. "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
218. "It’s not that other people don’t get me at all… it’s that you get me completely."Click to tweet
219. "True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks." (Saint Jerome) Click to tweet
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220. "One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about." (Mindy Kaling) Click to tweet
221. "True friendship isn’t about being inseparable it’s being separated and nothing changes."Click to tweet
222. "We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing." (Jennifer Aniston) Click to tweet
223. "That’s when i realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do."Click to tweet
224. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." (David Tyson) Click to tweet
225. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." (Thomas Aquinas) Click to tweet
226. "What i cannot love, i overlook. Is that real friendship?" (Anais Nin) Click to tweet
227. "Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time."Click to tweet
228. "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." (Arnold H. Glascow) Click to tweet
229. "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." (Elizabeth Foley) Click to tweet
230. "A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) Click to tweet
231. "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." (Confucius) Click to tweet
232. "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."Click to tweet
233. "True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value." (Ben Jonson) Click to tweet
234. "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." (Seneca) Click to tweet
235. "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else." (Len Wein) Click to tweet
236. "The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes." (Sallust) Click to tweet
237. "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." (Henry Ford) Click to tweet
238. "Friends, though absent, are still present." (Cicero) Click to tweet
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239. "The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." (Bob Marley) Click to tweet
240. "There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
241. "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
242. "Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody." (Stephen Chbosky) Click to tweet
243. "The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends." (Gwyneth Paltrow) Click to tweet
244. "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." (Euripides) Click to tweet
245. "Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give."Click to tweet
246. "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." (Henri Nouwen) Click to tweet
247. "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." (Edgar Watson Howe) Click to tweet
248. "Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next." (Dean Koontz) Click to tweet
249. "The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away." (Barbara Kingsolver) Click to tweet
250. "Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back." (Blaise Pascal) Click to tweet
251. "Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity." (Charles Caleb Colton) Click to tweet
252. "Don’t feel bad if people remember you only when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness."Click to tweet
253. "There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend." (Katharine Butler Hathaway) Click to tweet
254. "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life." (Thomas Jefferson) Click to tweet
255. "The worst solitude is to have no real friendships." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
256. "Friendship has its illusions no less than love." (Stendhal) Click to tweet
257. "True enemies are better than false friends." (Matshona Dhliwayo) Click to tweet
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258. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
259. "I don’t need a friend who changes when i change and who nods when i nod; my shadow does that much better." (Plutarch) Click to tweet
260. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
261. "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) Click to tweet
262. "Losing friends that are easily lost is no loss at all." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
263. "It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best." (Edward Bulwer Lytton) Click to tweet
264. "False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." (Richard Burton) Click to tweet
265. "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) Click to tweet
266. "Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit." (Socrates) Click to tweet
267. "Suspicion is the cancer of friendship." (Petrarch) Click to tweet
268. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." (Dr. Seuss) Click to tweet
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269. "There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance." (Dodinshy) Click to tweet
270. "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) Click to tweet
271. "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) Click to tweet
272. "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) Click to tweet
273. "Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever." (Deng Ming Dao) Click to tweet
274. "Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
275. "It takes a long time to grow an old friend." (John Leonard) Click to tweet
276. "Jealousy is the fear of comparison." (Max Frisch) Click to tweet
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277. "Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
278. "You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars." (Gary Allan) Click to tweet
279. "The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time." (Johann Kaspar Lavater) Click to tweet
280. "Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius." (Fulton J. Sheen) Click to tweet
281. "He that is jealous is not in love." (Augustine of Hippo) Click to tweet
282. "True friends stab you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
283. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." (Euripides) Click to tweet
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284. "Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings." (Miles Franklin) Click to tweet
285. "Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that i’ve ever thought i’d have." (Ernie Banks) Click to tweet
286. "It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
287. "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) Click to tweet
288. "One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." (Forster) Click to tweet
289. "Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." (Karl Menninger) Click to tweet
290. "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) Click to tweet
291. "Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports." (Kenneth Branagh) Click to tweet
292. "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet
293. "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected." (Charles Lamb) Click to tweet
294. "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want to want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." (Oprah Winfrey) Click to tweet
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295. "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) Click to tweet
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296. "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
297. "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else." (Len Wein) Click to tweet
298. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (Jim Morrison) Click to tweet
299. "Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend." (Bill Watterson) Click to tweet
300. "Love is like a flower; friendship is like a sheltering tree." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Click to tweet
301. "It’s the friends that you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." (Marlene Dietrich) Click to tweet
302. "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." (Elbert Hubbard) Click to tweet
303. "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." (Hubert H. Humphrey) Click to tweet
304. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." (Euripides) Click to tweet
305. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
306. "A friend is a gift you give yourself." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet
307. "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) Click to tweet
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308. "The most important thing is to enjoy life – to be happy – it’s all that matters." (Audrey Hepburn) Click to tweet
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309. "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." (Euripides) Click to tweet
2. "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
3. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." (Elbert Hubbard) Click to tweet
4. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them." (Jim Morrison) Click to tweet
5. "Friendship is a sheltering tree." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Click to tweet
6. "I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better." (Abraham Lincoln) Click to tweet
7. "True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Click to tweet
8. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
9. "A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
10. "I have learned that to be with those i like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Click to tweet
11. "Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left." (Paulo Coelho) Click to tweet
12. "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; i to my friends." (Virginia Woolf) Click to tweet
13. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
14. "It’s not what we have, but who we have." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
15. "One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine." (Matshona Dhliwayo) Click to tweet
16. "The language of friendship is not words but meanings." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
17. "There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met." (William Butler Yeats) Click to tweet
18. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Click to tweet
19. "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
20. "How distant i am from people when i am with them, and how close when they are far away." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
21. "Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives." (Alexander Dumas) Click to tweet
22. "“stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary." (Louisa May Alcott) Click to tweet
23. "Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words." (George Eliot) Click to tweet
24. "My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of." (Jodie Foster) Click to tweet
25. "Man’s best support is a very dear friend." (Cicero) Click to tweet
26. "A friend is a gift you give yourself." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet
27. "There cannot be friendship without equality." (Swami Sivananda) Click to tweet
28. "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) Click to tweet
29. "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) Click to tweet
30. "Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
31. "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Click to tweet
32. "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth." (Herman Melville) Click to tweet
33. "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Click to tweet
34. "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have." (Irish Proverb) Click to tweet
35. "A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth." (Charles Darwin) Click to tweet
36. "The friendship which can cease has never been real." (St. Jerome) Click to tweet
37. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." (Woodrow Wilson) Click to tweet
38. "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." (Samuel Butler) Click to tweet
39. "Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet
40. "Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times."Click to tweet
41. "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) Click to tweet
42. "Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘i’m here for you,’ and proved it."Click to tweet
43. "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication." (Anna Deavere Smith) Click to tweet
44. "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) Click to tweet
45. "Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality." (Rowan Williams) Click to tweet
46. "Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." (Thomas Aquinas) Click to tweet
47. "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
48. "The only way to have a friend is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
49. "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." (Audrey Hepburn) Click to tweet
50. "Do i not destroy my enemies when i make them my friends?" (Abraham Lincoln) Click to tweet
51. "If you have one true friend you have more than your share." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
52. "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." (Herodotus) Click to tweet
53. "As soon as i saw you, i knew an adventure was going to happen." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
54. "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
55. "We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, pooh? Asked piglet. Even longer. Pooh answered." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
56. "I get by with a little help from my friends." (The Beatles) Click to tweet
57. "My friends are my estate." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet
58. "Friends are proved by adversity." (Cicero) Click to tweet
59. "We cannot hope to only leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend." (George H. W. Bush) Click to tweet
60. "A friend to all is a friend to none." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
61. "Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." (Socrates) Click to tweet
62. "Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself." (Confucius) Click to tweet
63. "Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship." (Dorothy Parker) Click to tweet
64. "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet
65. "A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
66. "Life is nothing without friendship." (Cicero) Click to tweet
67. "True friendships are eternal." (Cicero) Click to tweet
68. "Friends are the family you choose."Click to tweet
69. "Friendship = vulnerability * time." (Sahil Lavingia) Click to tweet
70. "No friendship is an accident." (O. Henry) Click to tweet
71. "Truth springs from argument amongst friends." (David Hume) Click to tweet
72. "Love is friendship on fire." (Susan Sontag) Click to tweet
73. "Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."Click to tweet
74. "Opposition is true friendship." (William Blake) Click to tweet
75. "Between friends, words are optional."Click to tweet
76. "Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff." (May Sarton) Click to tweet
77. "Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word."Click to tweet
78. "The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two." (Sophie Swetchine) Click to tweet
79. "The best mirror is an old friend." (George Herbert) Click to tweet
80. "Friendship is essentially a partnership." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
81. "There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself." (William Hazlitt) Click to tweet
82. "The secret to friendship is being a good listener."Click to tweet
83. "Friendships are discovered rather than made." (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Click to tweet
84. "The best cure for a bad day is a good friend."Click to tweet
85. "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." (Jean de La Fontaine) Click to tweet
86. "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." (Charles Dickens) Click to tweet
87. "You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist." (Indira Gandhi) Click to tweet
88. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
89. "Friendship is more than being there for your friends when they need you, it’s also allowing your friends to be there for you." (Shane Parrish) Click to tweet
90. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." (Walter Winchell) Click to tweet
91. "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) Click to tweet
92. "One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention." (Clifton Fadiman) Click to tweet
93. "We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
94. "If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone." (Maxwell Maltz) Click to tweet
95. "When was the last time you asked your friend how he/she was doing?" (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
96. "If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, i’ll stay there forever." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
97. "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth." (Thomas Sowell) Click to tweet
98. "Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
99. "Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead." (Anna Cummins) Click to tweet
100. "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life." (Jean de La Fontaine) Click to tweet
101. "The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." (Cicero) Click to tweet
102. "There is nothing i would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." (Jane Austen) Click to tweet
103. "To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." (Theodore H. White) Click to tweet
104. "Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking." (George Eliot) Click to tweet
105. "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
106. "Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day." (Charlotte Bronte) Click to tweet
107. "The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people." (Nicholas Sparks) Click to tweet
108. "Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." (Amy Poehler) Click to tweet
109. "Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good." (Pope John Paul II) Click to tweet
110. "When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
111. "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
112. "Friendship is held to be the severest test of character." (Charles Eastman) Click to tweet
113. "It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." (Marlene Dietrich) Click to tweet
114. "The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
115. "A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship." (Saint Francis de Sales) Click to tweet
116. "Your friend is your needs answered." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
117. "I love how badass we think we are when we’re together."Click to tweet
118. "Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
119. "Friendship is love minus sex plus reason: love is friendship plus sex minus reason."Click to tweet
120. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." (Linda Grayson) Click to tweet
121. "I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me." (Toni Morrison) Click to tweet
122. "I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends… they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights." (Oscar Levant) Click to tweet
123. "The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet
124. "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) Click to tweet
125. "I like to hang out with people who make me forget to look at my phone."Click to tweet
126. "No one will ever be as entertained by us as us."Click to tweet
127. "True friendship is when you walk into their house and your wifi connects automatically."Click to tweet
128. "There are small ships and big ships but the best ships are friendships."Click to tweet
129. "The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before he comes over."Click to tweet
130. "Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive."Click to tweet
131. "We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall i will pick you up after i finish laughing."Click to tweet
132. "The friendship of one intelligent man is better than that of all the unintelligent." (Democritus) Click to tweet
133. "Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used." (Elbert Hubbard) Click to tweet
134. "The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet
135. "A day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
136. "The older i get the more selective i am of who is in my tribe. I would rather have four quarters than a hundred pennies."Click to tweet
137. "You are i are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang."Click to tweet
138. "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success." (Doug Larson) Click to tweet
139. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time." (Henry Van Dyke) Click to tweet
140. "‘stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary." (Amos Bronson Alcott) Click to tweet
141. "Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) Click to tweet
142. "If you live to be 100, i hope i live to be 100 minus 1 day, so i never have to live without you." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
143. "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet
144. "If i had a flower for every time i thought of you… i could walk through my garden forever." (Alfred Tennyson) Click to tweet
145. "There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
146. "Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." (Georgia O’Keeffe) Click to tweet
147. "We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones." (Hafiz of Persia) Click to tweet
148. "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." (Ray Bradbury) Click to tweet
149. "A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world." (Leo Buscaglia) Click to tweet
150. "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." (William Blake) Click to tweet
151. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Click to tweet
152. "What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
153. "Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them." (Publius Syrus) Click to tweet
154. "Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance." (Rabindranath Tagore) Click to tweet
155. "Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue." (Cicero) Click to tweet
156. "We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young." (Letty Cottin Pogrebin) Click to tweet
157. "In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart." (Cicero) Click to tweet
158. "It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." (Confucius) Click to tweet
159. "We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them." (Charles Caleb Colton) Click to tweet
160. "He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies." (William Hazlitt) Click to tweet
161. "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
162. "It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
163. "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 Miller) Click to tweet
164. "Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad."Click to tweet
165. "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
166. "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
167. "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) Click to tweet
168. "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." (John Churton Collins) Click to tweet
169. "This is my beloved and this is my friend." (Song of Solomon) Click to tweet
170. "Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never." (Charles Caleb Colton) Click to tweet
171. "Love is a friendship set to music." (Joseph Campbell) Click to tweet
172. "Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love." (Jane Austen) Click to tweet
173. "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." (Hubert H. Humphrey) Click to tweet
174. "Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring the most basic part of love." (Ed Cunningham) Click to tweet
175. "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." (Ann Landers) Click to tweet
176. "A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." (Saint Basil) Click to tweet
177. "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." (Elie Wiesel) Click to tweet
178. "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." (Ella Wheeler Wilcox) Click to tweet
179. "Love everyone with a deep love based on charity, but form friendships only with those who can share virtuous things with you. The higher the virtues you share and exchange with others, the more perfect your friendship will be." (Francis de Sales) Click to tweet
180. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
181. "The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… . A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words." (Rachel Naomi Remen) Click to tweet
182. "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation." (Samuel Richardson) Click to tweet
183. "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." (Oliver Goldsmith) Click to tweet
184. "Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." (Lord Byron) Click to tweet
185. "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) Click to tweet
186. "The verb ‘to love’ in persian is ‘to have a friend’. ‘i love you’ translated literally is ‘i have you as a friend’." (Shusha Guppy) Click to tweet
187. "There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
188. "Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." (Cicero) Click to tweet
189. "Love is friendship set on fire." (Jeremy Taylor) Click to tweet
190. "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." (Baltasar Gracián) Click to tweet
191. "Friendship is infinitely better than kindness." (Cicero) Click to tweet
192. "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" (George Eliot) Click to tweet
193. "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and i have received it." (Hubert H. Humphrey) Click to tweet
194. "A friend is someone you can share your incomplete thoughts with. People need a private space where they can speak and refine their “work in progress” thinking." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
195. "If you set out to do what you really want to do, you may lose a lot of friends but you will not lose a single friend who is worth having." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet
196. "There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living." (Don Marquis) Click to tweet
197. "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company." (Booker T. Washington) Click to tweet
198. "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) Click to tweet
199. "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." (Anais Nin) Click to tweet
200. "We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy." (Arthur Ashe) Click to tweet
201. "If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others." (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) Click to tweet
202. "The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, ‘what are you going through?’" (Simone Weil) Click to tweet
203. "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) Click to tweet
204. "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James f." (Byrnes) Click to tweet
205. "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
206. "That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end." (Francis Quarles) Click to tweet
207. "Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend." (Sarah Dessen) Click to tweet
208. "How lucky i am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." (Winnie The Pooh) Click to tweet
209. "Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul." (Steve Maraboli) Click to tweet
210. "Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace." (Christie Brinkley) Click to tweet
211. "Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving." (Osho) Click to tweet
212. "I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." (Katherine Mansfield) Click to tweet
213. "The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference." (Audre Lorde) Click to tweet
214. "I often find myself saying a little prayer of thanks for you."Click to tweet
215. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." (Marcel Proust) Click to tweet
216. "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." (Cicero) Click to tweet
217. "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
218. "It’s not that other people don’t get me at all… it’s that you get me completely."Click to tweet
219. "True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks." (Saint Jerome) Click to tweet
220. "One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about." (Mindy Kaling) Click to tweet
221. "True friendship isn’t about being inseparable it’s being separated and nothing changes."Click to tweet
222. "We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing." (Jennifer Aniston) Click to tweet
223. "That’s when i realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do."Click to tweet
224. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." (David Tyson) Click to tweet
225. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." (Thomas Aquinas) Click to tweet
226. "What i cannot love, i overlook. Is that real friendship?" (Anais Nin) Click to tweet
227. "Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time."Click to tweet
228. "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." (Arnold H. Glascow) Click to tweet
229. "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." (Elizabeth Foley) Click to tweet
230. "A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) Click to tweet
231. "Silence is the true friend that never betrays." (Confucius) Click to tweet
232. "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."Click to tweet
233. "True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value." (Ben Jonson) Click to tweet
234. "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." (Seneca) Click to tweet
235. "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else." (Len Wein) Click to tweet
236. "The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes." (Sallust) Click to tweet
237. "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." (Henry Ford) Click to tweet
238. "Friends, though absent, are still present." (Cicero) Click to tweet
239. "The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." (Bob Marley) Click to tweet
240. "There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
241. "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
242. "Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody." (Stephen Chbosky) Click to tweet
243. "The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends." (Gwyneth Paltrow) Click to tweet
244. "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." (Euripides) Click to tweet
245. "Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give."Click to tweet
246. "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." (Henri Nouwen) Click to tweet
247. "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." (Edgar Watson Howe) Click to tweet
248. "Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next." (Dean Koontz) Click to tweet
249. "The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away." (Barbara Kingsolver) Click to tweet
250. "Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back." (Blaise Pascal) Click to tweet
251. "Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity." (Charles Caleb Colton) Click to tweet
252. "Don’t feel bad if people remember you only when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness."Click to tweet
253. "There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend." (Katharine Butler Hathaway) Click to tweet
254. "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life." (Thomas Jefferson) Click to tweet
255. "The worst solitude is to have no real friendships." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
256. "Friendship has its illusions no less than love." (Stendhal) Click to tweet
257. "True enemies are better than false friends." (Matshona Dhliwayo) Click to tweet
258. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
259. "I don’t need a friend who changes when i change and who nods when i nod; my shadow does that much better." (Plutarch) Click to tweet
260. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." (Alice Walker) Click to tweet
261. "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) Click to tweet
262. "Losing friends that are easily lost is no loss at all." (The Stoic Emperor) Click to tweet
263. "It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best." (Edward Bulwer Lytton) Click to tweet
264. "False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." (Richard Burton) Click to tweet
265. "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) Click to tweet
266. "Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit." (Socrates) Click to tweet
267. "Suspicion is the cancer of friendship." (Petrarch) Click to tweet
268. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." (Dr. Seuss) Click to tweet
269. "There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance." (Dodinshy) Click to tweet
270. "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) Click to tweet
271. "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) Click to tweet
272. "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) Click to tweet
273. "Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever." (Deng Ming Dao) Click to tweet
274. "Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
275. "It takes a long time to grow an old friend." (John Leonard) Click to tweet
276. "Jealousy is the fear of comparison." (Max Frisch) Click to tweet
277. "Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
278. "You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars." (Gary Allan) Click to tweet
279. "The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time." (Johann Kaspar Lavater) Click to tweet
280. "Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius." (Fulton J. Sheen) Click to tweet
281. "He that is jealous is not in love." (Augustine of Hippo) Click to tweet
282. "True friends stab you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
283. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." (Euripides) Click to tweet
284. "Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings." (Miles Franklin) Click to tweet
285. "Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that i’ve ever thought i’d have." (Ernie Banks) Click to tweet
286. "It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
287. "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) Click to tweet
288. "One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life." (Forster) Click to tweet
289. "Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." (Karl Menninger) Click to tweet
290. "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) Click to tweet
291. "Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports." (Kenneth Branagh) Click to tweet
292. "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet
293. "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected." (Charles Lamb) Click to tweet
294. "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want to want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." (Oprah Winfrey) Click to tweet
295. "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) Click to tweet
296. "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
297. "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else." (Len Wein) Click to tweet
298. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (Jim Morrison) Click to tweet
299. "Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend." (Bill Watterson) Click to tweet
300. "Love is like a flower; friendship is like a sheltering tree." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Click to tweet
301. "It’s the friends that you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." (Marlene Dietrich) Click to tweet
302. "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." (Elbert Hubbard) Click to tweet
303. "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." (Hubert H. Humphrey) Click to tweet
304. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." (Euripides) Click to tweet
305. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
306. "A friend is a gift you give yourself." (Robert Louis Stevenson) Click to tweet
307. "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) Click to tweet
308. "The most important thing is to enjoy life – to be happy – it’s all that matters." (Audrey Hepburn) Click to tweet
309. "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." (Euripides) Click to tweet
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