inspiring quotes to celebrate friendship
in this blog I'm writing today, I will share the best inspiring friendship quotes I read in my life.
friendship quotes you should know about:
ü Wishing
to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
ü Friendship
is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
ü Friendship
is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
ü 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
ü 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
ü There
are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
Unknown
ü Friendship
is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together
exactly the same way.
Charles Kingsley
ü “Friendship
is one mind in two bodies.”
Mencius
ü Friendship
is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most
agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
ü Friendship
is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be
cracks.
Waqar Ahmed
ü Shared
joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Swedish Proverb
ü The
greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
ü Every
friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests
every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.
John O’Donohue
ü Be
slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm &
constant.
Socrates
ü Friendship
improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our
grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
ü “Friendship
is a sheltering tree.”
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Eustace Budgell
ü Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Dorothy Parker
ü 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 Faidman
ü Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Ellie Weisel
ü A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Markus Zusak
ü Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
Truman Capote
ü Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
ü There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt
ü When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
ü 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
ü In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
ü “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
Anna Deavre Smith
ü 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
ü Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
ü Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Weisel
ü No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Or have a sleepover. Otherwise, my life is just all work.
Jennifer Lawrence
ü When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver
ü The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor 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
O. Henry, Heart of the West
ü The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Steven Pinker
ü Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
ü Friendship my definition is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.
Stieg Larsson
ü I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
ü In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran
ü Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Balthasar Gracian
ü A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin
ü “A friendship that can end never really began.”
Publilius Syrus
ü Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.
Jane Fonda
ü Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘You too? I thought I was the only one.’
C.S. Lewis
ü Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
Mariella Frostrup
ü Friendship’s the wine of life.
Edward Young, Night Thoughts
ü If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.
Oprah Winfrey
ü Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre Dumas
ü “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
Henry David Thoreau
ü Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
Misty Copeland
ü 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
ü No road is long with good company.
Turkish Proverb
ü Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
Anais Nin
ü “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustace Deschamps
ü In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
ü I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.
Helen Keller
ü A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
ü A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
ü Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
Anna Taylor
ü Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
ü 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
ü 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
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ü I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.
Anonymous
ü 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.
Jim Morrison
ü 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
ü In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
ü A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.
Heidi Wills
ü The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.
Shanna Rodriguez
ü Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
ü Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
ü “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
Mencius
ü A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
Winnie the Pooh
ü I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
ü You’ve got a friend in me.
Randy Newman, Toy Story
ü Friends
should be like books, few, but hand-selected.
C. J. Langenhoven
ü Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
ü Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
ü There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
ü A friend accepts us as we are, yet helps us to be what we should.
Anonymous
ü “Friends are the family you choose.”
– Jess C. Scott
ü 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
ü 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
ü Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
ü I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
ü It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ü Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.
Sare and Cate
ü Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
ü “In a friend you find a second self.”
Isabelle Norton
ü Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb
ü Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.
Roxy Quicksilver
ü Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
ü There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath
ü I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.
Steven King, Stand by Me
ü Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams
ü Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
Steve Maraboli
ü A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
Simon Sinek
ü “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides
ü How many slams in an old screen door? Depends on how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.
Shel Silverstein
ü Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
ü 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
ü If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.
Unknown
ü 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.
John Katz
ü Sitting
silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.
Unknown
ü A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.
Unknown
ü There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Henry Ford
ü “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
John Leonard
ü I have friends, I have associates, and I have friends.
Shaquille O’Neal
ü I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson
ü Winning friends begins with friendliness.
Dale Carnegie
ü 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
ü A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
ü There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
Edith Wharton
ü The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
ü “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”
Henry van Dyke
ü 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
ü We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Sheridan Norton
ü Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them
Anna Taylor
ü Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Brooke Elliott
ü Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.
Doe Zantamata
ü Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough
ü Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Flavia Weedn
ü Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
ü “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” –
Herodotus
ü The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
ü 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
ü A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
Grace Pulpit
ü 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
ü Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
ü “A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
ü 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
ü Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin
ü The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
Eli Wallach, The Godfather Part III
ü Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
ü 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.
Octravia Butler
ü 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
ü There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
ü “The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
Ethel Barrymore
ü A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
ü If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.
S.E. Hinton
ü What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
ü F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.
Unknown
ü There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
Edith Wharton
ü A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels
ü I cannot even imagine where I would be today was it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Charles R. Swindoll
ü Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
ü “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
ü Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
ü 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
ü Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.
Ally Condie
ü Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there.
Unknown
ü The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.
Pete Wentz
ü Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
Jacques Delille
ü Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
ü No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
ü “Where there are friends, there is wealth.”
Titus Maccius Plautus
ü You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
ü Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
ü 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
ü Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson
ü They make me stronger; they make me braver.
Jane Fonda
ü “Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.”
Anonymous
ü Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
Richelle Mead
ü A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb
ü Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Sarah Dessen
ü “The best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
Henry Ford
ü Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.
Bill Waterston, Calvin and Hobbes
ü My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
ü I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life.
Lena Dunham
ü My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.
Diane von Furstenberg
ü When a man’s best friend is his dog… That dog has a problem.
Edward Abbey
ü She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.
Ashley Olsen
ü The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
ü What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing.
Blake Lively
ü It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Gina Barreca
ü Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.
Nathaniel Richmond
ü I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
Jasmine Guinness
ü That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but at the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.
Kristin Hannah
ü That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
Kristin Hannah
ü If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?
Meghan Markle
ü Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgment of how ‘cool’ you are? Well, now you’re picking a friend for life.
Renee Olstead
ü “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
ü You can’t describe your best friends in words. You can describe them with memories that you had with them.
Saurabh Saini
ü A bosom friend an intimate friend, you know a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
ü The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.
Steven Wright
ü In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
ü I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.
Helen Keller
ü A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
ü A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
ü Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
Anna Taylor
ü Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
ü 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
ü 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
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ü I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.
Anonymous
ü 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.
Jim Morrison
ü 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
ü In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
ü A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.
Heidi Wills
ü The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.
Shanna Rodriguez
ü Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
ü Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
ü “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
Mencius
ü A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
Winnie the Pooh
ü I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
ü You’ve got a friend in me.
Randy Newman, Toy Story
C. J. Langenhoven
ü Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
ü Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
ü There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
ü A friend accepts us as we are, yet helps us to be what we should.
Anonymous
ü “Friends are the family you choose.”
– Jess C. Scott
ü 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
ü 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
ü Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
ü I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
ü It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ü Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.
Sare and Cate
ü Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
ü “In a friend you find a second self.”
Isabelle Norton
ü Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb
ü Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.
Roxy Quicksilver
ü Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
ü There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath
ü I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.
Steven King, Stand by Me
ü Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams
ü Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
Steve Maraboli
ü A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
Simon Sinek
ü “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides
ü How many slams in an old screen door? Depends on how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.
Shel Silverstein
ü Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
ü 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
ü If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.
Unknown
ü 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.
John Katz
Unknown
ü A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.
Unknown
ü There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Henry Ford
ü “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
John Leonard
ü I have friends, I have associates, and I have friends.
Shaquille O’Neal
ü I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson
ü Winning friends begins with friendliness.
Dale Carnegie
ü 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
ü A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
ü There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
Edith Wharton
ü The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
ü “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”
Henry van Dyke
ü 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
ü We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Sheridan Norton
ü Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them
Anna Taylor
ü Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Brooke Elliott
ü Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.
Doe Zantamata
ü Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough
ü Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Flavia Weedn
ü Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
ü “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” –
Herodotus
ü The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
ü 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
ü A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
Grace Pulpit
ü 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
ü Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
ü “A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
ü 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
ü Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin
ü The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
Eli Wallach, The Godfather Part III
ü Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
ü 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.
Octravia Butler
Arnold H. Glasgow
ü There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
ü “The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
Ethel Barrymore
ü A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
ü If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.
S.E. Hinton
ü What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
ü F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.
Unknown
ü There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
Edith Wharton
ü A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels
ü I cannot even imagine where I would be today was it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Charles R. Swindoll
ü Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
ü “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
ü Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
ü 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
ü Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.
Ally Condie
ü Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there.
Unknown
ü The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.
Pete Wentz
ü Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
Jacques Delille
ü Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
ü No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
ü “Where there are friends, there is wealth.”
Titus Maccius Plautus
ü You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
ü Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
ü 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
ü Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson
ü They make me stronger; they make me braver.
Jane Fonda
ü “Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.”
Anonymous
ü Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
Richelle Mead
ü A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb
ü Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Sarah Dessen
ü “The best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
Henry Ford
ü Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.
Bill Waterston, Calvin and Hobbes
ü My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
ü I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life.
Lena Dunham
ü My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.
Diane von Furstenberg
ü When a man’s best friend is his dog… That dog has a problem.
Edward Abbey
ü She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.
Ashley Olsen
ü The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
ü What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing.
Blake Lively
ü It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Gina Barreca
ü Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.
Nathaniel Richmond
ü I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
Jasmine Guinness
ü That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but at the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.
Kristin Hannah
ü That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
Kristin Hannah
ü If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?
Meghan Markle
ü Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgment of how ‘cool’ you are? Well, now you’re picking a friend for life.
Renee Olstead
ü “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
ü You can’t describe your best friends in words. You can describe them with memories that you had with them.
Saurabh Saini
ü A bosom friend an intimate friend, you know a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
ü The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.
Steven Wright
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