Friendship Quotes, Sayings about Friends

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort – Adabella Radici.

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend – Albert Camus.

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 Duer Miller.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive – Anais Nin.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces – Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them – Anon.

Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life – Anon.

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend – Aristotle.

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

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad – Arnold H. Glasgow.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried – Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away – Barbara Kingsolver.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his – Benjamin Franklin.

We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade – Caroline Sheridan Norton.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival – C.S. Lewis.

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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable – Dave Tyson Gentry.

One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one – D.H. Lawrence.

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship – Dorothy Parker.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails – Donna Roberts.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be – Douglas Pagels.

If 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.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you – Elbert Hubbard.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart – Elisabeth Foley.

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help – Epicurus.

The best time to make friends is before you need them – Ethel Barrymore.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself – Eustache Deschamps.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little – E.W. Howe.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them – Francesco Guicciardini.

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself – Frances Ward Weller.

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

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give – George MacDonald.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out – Grace Pulpit.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends – Gwyneth Paltrow.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light – Helen Keller.

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

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

In my friend, I find a second self – Isabel Norton.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend – John Leonard.

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

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

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.

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

Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love – Letty Cottin Pogrebin.

A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world – Lois Wyse.

Friendship is Love, without his wings – Lord Byron.

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

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter – Marlene Dietrich.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies – Menclus.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter – Mignon McLaughlin.

It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not – Mignon McLaughlin.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend – Oliver Wendell Holmes.

True friends stab you in the front – Oscar Wilde.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers – Pam Brown.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend – Plautus.

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

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.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar – Robert Brault.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen – Rod McKuen.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends – Samuel Pepys.

Friendship is a sheltering tree – Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends – Shirley Maclaine.

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

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends – Virginia Woolf.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend – William Blake.

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