Friendship Quote

Friendship Quote

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
~ William Blake

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
~ Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
~ Confucious (551 - 497 BC) Chinese philosopher

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
~ Jacques Delille (1738 - 1813) French poet

A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist

Keep your friendships in repair.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US poet & essayist

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
~ Samuel Johnston

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
~ Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) French writer

If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) British dramatist

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
~ George Washington (1732 - 1799) US Statesman

True 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

Friendship Quotes From Lyrics

Friendship Quotes From Lyrics

Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.
~ Liz Phair

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
~ Stone Temple Pilots

Mother my friends are no longer my friends
And the games we once played have no meaning
I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why
So they've left me to my own daydreaming.
~ Suzanne Vega

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.
~ Tom Petty

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
~ Dave Matthews Band

You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
~ Tom Petty

When I'm with you I feel like I could die and that would be alright, alright.
~ Third Eye Blind

Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long, 'til I'm going to need somebody to lean on.
~ "Lean On Me"

In good times, in bad times I'll be on your side forever more, that's what friends are for.
~ "That's what friends are for"

I think about you all the time, but I don't need the same.
~ Goo Goo Dolls

Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.
~ Leann Rimes

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.
~ Richard Bach

I get by with a little help from my friends.
~ John Lennon

Hey my friend, I see your eyes are troubled, care to sare your time with me?
~ Dave Matthews Band

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.
~ Randy Newman

Best friends just won't leave your side.
~ Blink182

Take my hand, and hold on tight, don't let go, don't you dare even try, there are so many roads to travel, so much still to find, and with the help of our lord, I want you to help me try and reach for the sky.
~ Marty Keith

Thats what a friend is for, when your lost in darkness and searching for the light, to help you through those lonely nights, when everything around you fails just hold out your hand, and i'll come running, thats what a friend is for.
~ Marty Keith

Earthyly friends may prove untrue, doubts and fears asail, but one still loves and he cares for you. One who will not fail.
~ Song "Jesus, never fails"

Let me be the one you call If you jump, I will break your fall, lift you up and fly away with you into the night If you need to fall apart, I can mend a broken heart, If you need to crash, then crash and burn, you're not alone.
~ Crash and Burn by Savage Garden

We've gone our own ways and I know its for the best, but sometimes I wonder will I ever have a friend like you again?
~ Blink 182

Even if we never talk again after tonight, please remember that I am forever changed by who you are and what you meant to me.
~ Chasing Amy

General Friendship Quotes

General Friendship Quotes

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

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
~ Emily Kimbrough

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
~ Swedish Proverb

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~ Sicilian Proverb

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."
~ A.A. Milne

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
~ Dinah Craik

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

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

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Friends are family you choose for yourself.
~ Author Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
~ Author Unknown

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

Negative Friendship Quotes

Negative Friendship Quotes

These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet.
~ Radiohead

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
~ Lord Samuel

Whenever a friend suceeds, a little something in me dies.
~ Gore Vidal

I'll keep it short and sweet. family. religion. friendship. these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
~ Mongomery Burns (The Simpsons)

A friend in power is a friend lost.
~ Henry Adams

I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
~ Malcom Bradbury

I don't trust him. We're friends.
~ Bertolt Brecht

Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!
~ Bronwyn Polson

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
~ Bing Crosby

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
~ Anton Chekhov

Sometimes your closest friend is your greatest enemy.
~ Jason Fong

When I needed you most when I needed a friend, you let me down now like I let you down then.
~ Blink 182

What are friends?
Friends are people that you think are your friends
But they're really your enemies, with secret indentities
and disguises, to hide they're true colors
So just when you think you're close enough to be brothers
they wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin.
~ "If I Had" - Eminem

Men kick friendship around like a football and it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it falls to pieces.
~ Anne Lindbergh

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
~ Honore Debalazac

Negative Friendship Quotes

Negative Friendship Quotes

These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet.
~ Radiohead

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
~ Lord Samuel

Whenever a friend suceeds, a little something in me dies.
~ Gore Vidal

I'll keep it short and sweet. family. religion. friendship. these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
~ Mongomery Burns (The Simpsons)

A friend in power is a friend lost.
~ Henry Adams

I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
~ Malcom Bradbury

I don't trust him. We're friends.
~ Bertolt Brecht

Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!
~ Bronwyn Polson

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
~ Bing Crosby

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
~ Anton Chekhov

Sometimes your closest friend is your greatest enemy.
~ Jason Fong

When I needed you most when I needed a friend, you let me down now like I let you down then.
~ Blink 182

What are friends?
Friends are people that you think are your friends
But they're really your enemies, with secret indentities
and disguises, to hide they're true colors
So just when you think you're close enough to be brothers
they wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin.
~ "If I Had" - Eminem

Men kick friendship around like a football and it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it falls to pieces.
~ Anne Lindbergh

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
~ Honore Debalazac

Religious Friendship Quotes

Religious Friendship Quotes

Friends always show their love. What are brothers for if not to share troubles?
~ Proverbs 17:17

Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers.
~ Proverbs 18:24

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shall drink it with pleasure.
~ Sirach 9:10

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
~ Proverbs 24:26

A friend means well, even when he hurts you. But when an enemy puts his hand round your shoulder - watch out!
~ Proverbs 27:6

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
~ Bible: Ecclesiastes

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.
~ Emily Dickinson

The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.
~ John 15:13

A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure.
~ Sirach 6:14

Cherish your friend, keep faith in him.
~ Sirach 27:17

Faithful friends are beyond price: No amount can balance their worth.
~ Bible ( Old Testament ) Sirach 6:15

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
~ Proverbs 27:19

A friend loveth at all times.
~ Proverbs 17:17

Does it make me a stranger that my best friend was born in a manger?
~ dcTalk's song 'Jesus Freak'

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
~ Proverbs 27:17

Friends are friends forever, if the Lord is the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never, cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands I know
That a lifetime's not too long... to live as friends.
~ Michael W Smith

Friendship Love Quotes by Famous Celebrities - Part 2

Friendship Love Quotes by Famous Celebrities, Friendship Love Quotes by Famous People

The best mirror is an old friend.
~ George Herbert

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
~ Saint Jerome

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
~ William Shakespeare

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.
~ John Donne

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly

Friends have all things in common.
~ Plato

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
~ Artistotle

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
~ Henry Ford

It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm...
~ Shelly

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
~ Wilson Mizner

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
~ Kahil Gibran

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
~ Bejamin Disraeli

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
~ Walt Whitman

True friendship is never serene.
~ Marquise de Sevigne

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
~ Anatole Broyard

Friends are born, not made.
~ Henry Adams

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.
~ Francis Bacon

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.
~ Tehyi Hsieh

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
~ Edward Everett Hale

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
~ Henry David Thoreau

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
~ James Fenimore Cooper

Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
~ James Francis Byrnes

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

True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
~ Alexander Pope

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
~ Henry Brooks Adams

Friendship is not friendship without trust, without it I walk alone.
~ James P. Michels Jr.

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

Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;
Scatter bits of courtesy.......
watch them grow and grow.
Gather buds of friendship;
Keep them till full-blown;
You will find more happiness
than you have ever known.
~ Amy R Raabe

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...
~ Richard Bach

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

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend... once in a lifetime.
~ Little Rascals

A friend is like an oreo, its not always that great, but it always gets better!
~ Erin Westbrook

You just reminded me of what's really important in life, friends, best friends.
~ Fried Green Tomatoes

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner garden...what better gift?
~ Fred Rogers

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart.
~ Kathleen Grove
Friendship Love Quotes by Famous Celebrities - Famous Friendship Quotes,

Friendship Love Quotes by Famous Celebrities - Part 1

Friendship Love Quotes by Famous Celebrities, Friendship Love Quotes by Famous People

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
~ John Ray

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
~ Frances Ward Weller

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
~ Kayla

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~ Mencius


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

My friends are my estate.
~ Emily Dickinson

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
~ Walter Winchell

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.
~ John Lennon

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
~ Bible: Ecclesiastes

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
~ Mary Catherwood

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

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.
~ Cher

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~ Goethe

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
~ Francois Mocuriac

Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.
~ Pizza Place Sign

True friendship is never serene.
~ Mariede Svign

It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
~ Marlene Dietrick

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.
~ Collins English Dictionary

A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon.
~ Emma Stacey

Anybody can sympathies with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathies with a friend's success.
~ Oscar Wilde

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
~ William Shakespeare

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~ Aristotle

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
~ Cicero

Friendship Love Quotes by Famous Celebrities - Part 1

Friendship Love Quotes, Best Friendship Quotes

Friendship Love Quotes, Best Friendship Quotes

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"I have a hand, and you have another; put them together and we have each other."

"Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold."

"Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold."

"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."

"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."

"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."

"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them."

"The best antiques are old friends."

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."

"Money might make you wealthy, but friends makes you rich."

"You don't make friends, you earn them."

"When your looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship."

"How do you know you've found your best friend. When you are ready to talk to them about anything, even though they know everything about you already."

"A friend with break your heart, a friend will mend it, a friend will provide you with every feeling in the world, good and bad. A friend is emotion incarnate."

"I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way."

"No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of each other's worth."

"A world without a friend, what would it be? It would be like a world without water, something you need. Friends are like glass, once broken, they are hard to fix. Keep your friends, as you would keep your water."

"Friend derives from a word meaning "free." A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be."

"Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others."

"Any day is sunny that's brightened by a smile...Any friendship blossoms if it's tended to with style."

"The better you know someone, the less there is to say. Or maybe, there's less that needs to be said."

"A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!"

"A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you."

"One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members."

"Friends are like Peanut Butter ... it sticks to the roof of your mouth .like a friend sticks to you.... and it feels as if they never go away!"

"A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her hope."

"A reassuring presence, A LIGHT when times are dark, A hand reaching out, Is what friendship is about."

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."

Friendship Love Quotes, Best Friendship Quotes