Friendship Quotes and Quotations

Friendship Quotes and Quotations


If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Jerome Cummings.
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Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.
Sue Atchley Ebaugh
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I think God will have prepared everything for our perfect happiness. If it takes my dog being there [in Heaven], I believe he'll be there.
Rev. Billy Graham

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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
Swedish proverb
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha
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Good friends are good for your health.
Irwin Sarason
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Jacques Delille
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Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
George M. Adams
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer.
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Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
Cindy Lew
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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
Jewish Saying
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb
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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
Anonymous
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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.
Claude Mermet
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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Friendship needs no words...
Dag Hammarskjold.
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Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
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The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
Hasidic Saying
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
Samuel Paterson
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Anonymous
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Count your age with friends but not with years.
Anonymous
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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hillaire Belloc
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
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Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
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A friend loves at all times.
Proverbs 17: 17.
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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
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A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller
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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Homer (9th century B.C.)
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Bernard Meltzer
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A friend is a present you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
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An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
Proverbs 24:26
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Samuel Paterson
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus
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Friends show their love in times of trouble...
Euripides