Friendship Quotes and Sayings
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Rod McKuen
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold Glasow
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.
Adabella Radici
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
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
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
Dorothy Parker
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
Author Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Author Unknown
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Menclus
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
Author Unknown
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasgow
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
Author Unknown
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.
Author Unknown
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
American Proverb
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
Author Unknown
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
Friendship is Love, without his wings.
Lord Byron
A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
Author Unknown
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
E.W. Howe
‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Benjamin Franklin
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
Author Unknown
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Anäis Nin
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
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
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.
David Storey
In my friend, I find a second self.
Isabel Norton