Friendship Quotes
- A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. (Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter)
- Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. (Bill Watterson - American comic artist)
- No friendship is an accident. (O. Henry - American short story writer)
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. (Walter Winchell - American gossip journalist)
- The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves. (Oprah Winfrey - American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist)
- Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. (Martin Luther King Jr. - American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement)
- My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. (Henry Ford - American industrialist and business magnae)
- Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. (Sarah Dessen, Someone like you)
- Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap. (Anonymous)
- Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. (Woodrow Wilson - American politician, 28th president of the United States)
- 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 - American boxer, philanthropist, and activist)
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld - French author of maxims and memoirs)
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (Marcel Proust - French novelist, critic, and essayist)
- True friends are great riches. (Anonymous)
- A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. (Aristotle - Ancient Greek philosopher)
- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one. (C.S. Lewis - British Christian writer)
- True friends stab you in the front. (Oscar Wilde - Irish writer and poet)
- Friendship is a sheltering tree. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge - British poet, literary critic and philosopher)
- One good friendship will outlive forty average loves. (Anonymous)
- A sweet friendship refreshes the soul and awaken our hearts with joy, for good friends are like the anointing oil that yields the fragrant incense of God’s presence. (Proverbs 27:9)
- A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. (Arnold H. Glasgow - Famous Businessman)
- One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist)
- Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. (Elie Wiesel - Romanian-born American writer)
- The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson - American philosopher, essayist, and poet)
- There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. (Jim Henson - American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, investor, filmmaker, and screenwriter)
- A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. (Anonymous)
- Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends. (Virginia Woolf - English modernist writer known for use of stream of consciousness)
- One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. (Euripides - Ancient Athenian playwright)
- I cannot even imagine where I would be today were 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 - American pastor and Christian writer)
- A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. (Anonymous)
- 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 - American industrialist and business magnae)
- Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. (Marcus Tullius Cicero - Roman statesman, lawyer, orator and philosopher)
- There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family. (Anonymous)
- The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. (Chelsea Handler - American comedian, actress, author and talk show host)
- A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. (Irish Proverb)
- A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. (William Penn - English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania)
- 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 - American writer)
- True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. (David Tyson - Canadian record producer)
- As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them. (Gossip Girl - American teen drama television series)
- Remember that life's most valuable antiques are dear old friends. (H. Jackson Brown Jr - American writer)
- True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart. (Anonymous)
- Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. (Ed Cunningham - American football player, announcer)
- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. (Richard Bach - American spiritual writer)
- Its the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. (Charles Lamb - English essayist)
- 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 - American author)
- A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. (Bernard Meltzer - American radio personality)
- Friends are relatives you make for yourself. (Eustache Deschamps - French poet)
- Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. (John Evelyn - Writer, gardener and diarist)
