Top 100 Friends Friendship Quotes
#1. I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#2. We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
E.L. Doctorow
#3. There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives.
Ron Baratono
#6. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.
Stephen Richards
#7. To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, he had learned not to share evidence of his oddities as a way to distinguish himself from others, although he was happy and proud that they shared theirs with him
Hanya Yanagihara
#8. Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with silliest jingles and animation made ever.
Vikrmn
#10. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
Oscar Levant
#11. Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
#12. My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
Tom Lehrer
#13. It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.
Emma Frances Dawson
#14. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.
Catherine Lacey
#15. I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
Mark Twain
#17. All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
Lois Wyse
#18. As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the "other girls," and that every girl in the world is, too.
Mara Wilson
#19. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth,
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
Saib Tabrizi
#21. Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who've exposed me to every facet of womanhood.
Jeffrey Zaslow
#22. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Anne Carson
#23. Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart.
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
Nancy Reagan
#25. Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace
Aaron Sorkin
#27. All the friends I ever had are gone.
Bob Dylan
#28. He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!
Michael Ende
#29. The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
#31. I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend.
Sarah Hyland
#32. But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.
Shannon Noelle Long
#33. Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis Bacon
#34. If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.
H.F. Peters
#35. Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn't bleed for any of them, because he wouldn't trust them to bleed for him. In that way he's just as alone as me.
Markus Zusak
#36. The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.
Joseph J. Lhota
#37. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#38. There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren't bound to them by anything but love.
Sarah Manguso
#39. Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough.
E. Lockhart
#40. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#41. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.
E. M. Forster
#42. I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
William Barclay
#43. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean De La Bruyere
#44. Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends.
Marilyn Yalom
#46. There are people you wont miss, but wont forget either. Those people are unique
Ishak Zaaimia
#47. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#48. Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.
Shivam Singh
#49. You miss a lot of a person's life when you don't keep in touch. Maybe that's the point.
Bryant A. Loney
#50. Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going.
Lik Hock Yap
#51. A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
Zadie Smith
#52. Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life
and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
Dean Koontz
#53. The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall.
Tommy Cotton
#54. There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller
#55. The great thing about true best friends is that when you go MIA for a few months, they inquire but they don't press. Best friends know the power of infatuation but also how quickly it dissipates. You just have to wait it out. And then afterward, tease them about it for decades.
Mindy Kaling
#56. Friends are squad. Squad is family. Family is forever.
Malaika Gilani
#57. Try to be a happy memory for your friends.
Fred Smith
#58. sometimes I wondered if the whole point of their friendship was just to post these images, to prove to the world that they had a bunch of pretty friends.
Jennifer Close
#59. The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
William Hazlitt
#60. They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
George Thorogood
#61. Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
D.H. Lawrence
#62. Two main categories of people are needed in your circle; those who give you the necessary support to accomplish your dreams and those who become beneficiaries of what you achieve.
Israelmore Ayivor
#63. Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
Anne Carson
#64. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
Adhish Mazumder
#65. You were spying on me?" I repeated, this time my tone was stern.
"Nonsense! I was making sure you were safe." He answered, fluttering his wings and landing in front of me. "That's what friends do.
Grace Fiorre
#66. I may not be happy with you right now, but I still love you.
Janet Gurtler
#67. Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.
Ted Rall
#68. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
Henry Fielding
#71. It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.
Steven Spielberg
#72. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#73. You Too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
#74. True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
Josh Grayson
#75. Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.
Lauren Kate
#76. Catch your friends doing something good and tell them about it.
Glenn C. Stewart
#77. It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater.
Muriel Spark
#78. What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?"---Connecting
Sandy Sheehy
#79. It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become best friends.
Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
#80. It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
Ray Bradbury
#81. There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.
Toby Keith
#82. True friends may only speak several times a year and visit even less. But when life's challenges leave one of them vulnerable and in need of compassion, time and distance are no obstacles.
Shane Eric Mathias
#83. He didn't have many friends, but he valued his friendship with Angel. She was kind and giving and one of the few women who didn't look at him like he was an un-caged tiger
Katie Reus
#84. I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.
John Steinbeck
#85. Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.
Wendy Mills
#87. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
Shel Silverstein
#88. One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Seneca The Younger
#89. He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.
David Halberstam
#90. Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
#91. A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph Bourne
#92. Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.
Arlene J. Chai
#93. The most expensive gift one can give to his friends is TRUST which is obviously of no cost!
Nelson Jack
#94. A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#95. It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.
Alexandre Dumas
#96. Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
Winston Churchill
#97. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
William Shakespeare
#98. There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#99. There's an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she's older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn't gone through what I've gone through.
Zoe Cruz
