Top 100 Friendship Quotes

1

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

2

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

3

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

4

The best mirror is an old friend.

5

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

6

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

7

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

8

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

9

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

10

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

11

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

12

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

13

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

14

Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.

15

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

16

In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.17

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

18

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

19

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

20

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

21

Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.

22

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

23

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

24

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

25

If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

26

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

27

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

28

If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow

29

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

30

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

31

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

32

My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

33

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

34

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

35

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

36

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

37

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

38

There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.

39

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

40

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

41

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

42

As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.

43

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

44

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

45

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

46

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.

47

There is no friendship in trade.

48

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

49

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

50

Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and rights of others, the more you are a genuine friend. The more you remain open and sincere, then ultimately more benefits will come to you. If you forget or do not bother about others, then eventually you will lose your own benefit.

51

When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.

52

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

53

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

54

People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore the risk of heart attack.

55

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

56

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

57

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

58

Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.

59

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

60

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

61

Friendship's the wine of life.

62

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

63

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

64

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

65

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

66

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

67

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

68

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

69

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

70

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

71

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

72

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

73

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

74

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

75

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

76

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

77

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

78

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!

79

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

80

Letters of friendship require no study.

81

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

82

I am I because my little dog knows me.

83

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

84

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

85

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

86

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

87

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

88

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

89

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

90

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

91

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

92

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

93

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

94

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

95

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

96

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

97

My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.

98

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

99

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

100

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

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