Friendship quotes

Following are some quotation on friendship given by well known personalities......

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"A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body." 

Unknown

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."

Cindy Lew

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Richard Bach

"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."

Richard Burton

"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, letter to Giovanni Pollastra, July 7, 1537

"Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade."

Gelett Burgess, "Old Friends and New," 1916

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

Robert Southey

"A true friend stabs you in the front."- Oscar Wilde

"A friend to all is a friend to none."- Aristotle

"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."- Jane Austen

"Friends are relatives you make for yourself." - Eustache Deschamps

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones"

"The best time to make friends is before you need them." - Ether Barrymore

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." - Samuel Butler

"Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them." - Edwin Arlington Robinson

"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends." - P.D. James

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." - Fr. Jerome Cummings

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." – Anonymous

"Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police." – Anonymous

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim." - George Carlin

"Friendship. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul." -Ambrose Bierce

"An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body." - Jim Hayes

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." - Bernard Meltzer

"Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods." - Esther M. Clark

"Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice." - Anonymous

"I got a lot of best friends. Some o' them I don't even hardly know!" - Archie Bunker

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

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." – Silican proverb.

"Friends are God's ways of apologizing for our families." - Anonymous

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

"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

"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."- Austin O'Malley

"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." - Truman Capote

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!" - Doug Larson

I am hoping these funny quotes about friendship help you have a good laugh. 3 Cheers to an everlasting friendship!

Many great thinkers have been quoted on their views of friendship. Sweet words about friends, friendships, & love of a friend by wise philosophers, writers & artists.

Friendship. A simple subject. Perhaps not one considered to be something about which deep thinkers mull and debate.

And yet, many of those thought of as great thinkers and wise people find the love and loyalty of a true friend to be one of the greatest treasures in life.

Below are friendship quotations from writers, philosophers, leaders and humble folk.

Friendship Quotes of Encouragement

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." (Christopher Robin to Pooh) - A. A. Milne

“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotations Examining "What Is a Friend?"

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” - Douglas Pagels

 “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford

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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.” - Albert Schweitzer

“What is a friend? I will tell you - it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” - Frank Crane

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.” - Leo Buscaglia

Quotes on Loyalty and True Friendship

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” - Mark Twain

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

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

Wise Words on Needing a Friend

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” - Aristotle

“Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” - Albert Camus

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

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

Loving Quotes on the Value of Friendship

“Friends are treasures.” - Horace Bruns

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.” - Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” - Euripides

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” - George Eliot

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” - Hubert H. Humphrey

Friendship Quotes: What Is a Good Friend?

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." - George MacDonald

“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

Sweet Quotations for Wonderful Old Friends

“Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.” - Dorothy Parker

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners 

who make our souls blossom.” - Marcel Proust

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus

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

“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow