Friendship Quotes

Friendship is the bond that, if true, lasts for an entire lifetime. Indeed, everyone needs a friend to make his life joyous and worthwhile. The relationship between two friends is one of the strongest ones in this world. Experience the essence of true friendship with our collection of friendship quotes. These quotations will help you understand the true meaning of friendship and make your bond grow much stronger than before. You can also use these short friendship sayings to tell your buddies how much they are worth in your life.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Business
John D. Rockefeller

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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Life
Richard Burton

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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
Love Miss You Relationship Romance
Thomas More

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship Meaningful Buddy Happiness
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Life Love
Elie Wiesel

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
World
Anais Nin

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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.
Life People Time
Albert Schweitzer

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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Things
Bill Watterson

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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb

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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Friendship World
Leo Buscaglia

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I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
Funny Friendship Relationship Advice Opinion
Cameron Diaz

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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Freedom
Jim Morrison

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Friendship is Love without his wings!
Love
Lord Byron

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Trust Adversity
Ulysses S. Grant

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A friendship like love is warm; a love like friend ship is steady.
Love Relationship Affection Security
Thomas More

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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Good
Toni Morrison

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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
Alien
William Butler Yeats

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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Memory Sweet Heart
Washington Irving

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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Change
Plutarch

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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Friendship
Elbert Hubbard

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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Friendship Buddy Reality Self-Centeredness
Charles Kingsley

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Wickedness Good Life
Baltasar Gracian

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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

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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Friendship Love Affection Connection
Thomas Moore

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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Light Lonliness
Helen Keller

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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Respect People Love
Anton Chekhov

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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Good Life
Baltasar Gracian

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Silence
Alice Walker

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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Enemies Forgiveness
Walter Winchell

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Adversity Growth
George Washington

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

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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, stead.
Friendship Love Relationship Affection
Thomas Moore

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Being Alone World
Hillaire Belloc

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If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.
Friendship Relationship Talking Encouragement
Terri Guillemets

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Confidence
Epicurus

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Happiness
Joseph Addison

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Friendship Appreciation Blessings Effort
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
People
Marcel Proust

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Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.
Weeping Suffering
Terri Guillemets

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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
Friendship People Lifestyle Talent
Gene Tierney

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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Truth
Chanakya

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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Dignity
Arthur Ashe

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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Morning
Zora Neale Hurston

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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Wisdom
Epicurus

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

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Confidence
George Washington

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Wisdom Oil
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
People
Oprah Winfrey

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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Friendship Troubles
Edgar Watson Howe

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A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friendship
Aristotle

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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Death Advice Belief Pain
Thomas Paine

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Life
Joseph Addison

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

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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
People Happiness
Chanakya

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Love is a friendship set to music.
Love Music
Joseph Campbell

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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Love Truth
Henry Ward Beecher

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Praise Morning
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Contract Peace Unity Fellowship
Thomas Jefferson

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Marriage Love
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Friendship
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin

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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
Enemies
Edgar Watson Howe

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Work
Aristotle

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My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Friendship Nature
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

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True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Fall Art
Socrates

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Relationship Love
Lord Byron

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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.
Lonliness Life
Samuel Johnson

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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Words Language
Henry David Thoreau

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Love Heart
Edgar Allan Poe

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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Love
Henry Ward Beecher

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Friendship Nothing Belief
Honoré de Balzac

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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Good Love Marriage
Michel de Montaigne

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Relationship Women Love
Oscar Wilde

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Friendship Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Love
Anais Nin

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Greatness Life Art
Simone Weil

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

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Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
Love Forgiveness
George Foreman

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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Sweet Praise
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Enemies
Abraham Lincoln

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

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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Police Marriage
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Adversity Growth
George Washington

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