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A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Welcome to these Quotes about Friendship. Let these friendship quotes and sayings help you to more deeply appreciate the value of your close personal relationships and to become even closer to each of your true friends.
True friendships are characterized more by a deep trust than by any other single characteristic. People often say that the measure of a friendship is how comfortable they feel with the other person. While that observation is very true, the level of comfort one feels is generally a measure of the degree of trust inherent in the relationship. One can be comfortable in the presence of another only when there is a high level of mutual trust.
There is an old proverb of unknown origin that is often phrased,
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
There is a degree of truth in that saying in the sense that people (or groups, or countries) that have common enemies tend to bond together for emotional as well as physical support and defense. However, the nature of such a relationship is quite different from that of a true friendship - largely because the element of trust is usually absent.
A personal friendship that is based largely on having mutual enemies, or a mutual dislike or mutual fear, and in which a deep mutual trust is not present, is unlikely to be a true, satisfying, and lasting relationship.
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
-
Leo Buscaglia
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A friend is someone who understands your past,
believes in your future,
and accepts you just the way your are.
- Anonymous
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasow
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is someone who won't stop until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile,
who weeps when I weep;
for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
-
Confucius
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
-
Helen Keller
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- 'Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
-
Mencius
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us,
but because they will laugh at us;
Through them we learn a little objectivity,
a little modesty, a little courtesy;
We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game.
-
Will Durant
Fear makes strangers of people who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
-
Publilius Syrus
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
-
J. R. R. Tolkien
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are no good-byes, wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
-
Dutch Proverb
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Anonymous
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Chinese proverb
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
- Anne Frank
A good-bye is never painful unless you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
A lifelong friend is someone you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
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
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
- Anonymous
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
-
Bertrand Russell
Tears and laughter cleanse the heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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