Top 100 Friendship Is Like Quotes
#1. More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses
it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#2. You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
Rebecca Wells
#3. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds
Randy Mitchell
#4. Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#5. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.
Ian McEwan
#6. 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
#8. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it's difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there's nothing else you could ever want.
Rachel Cohn
#10. We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects." In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply "accept" imperfection when it is revealed to us - we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.
Ron Perlman
#11. 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
#12. Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?
Ariana Carruth
#13. Rino's mother is named Raffaella Cerullo, but everyone has always called her Lina. Not me, I've never used either her first name or her last. To me, for more than sixty years, she's been Lila. If I were to call her Lina or Raffaella, suddenly, like that, she would think our friendship was over.
Elena Ferrante
#14. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
A.A. Milne
#15. To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
Frank Frankfort Moore
#16. I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex.
R. J. Anderson
#17. Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get.
Riza Prasetyaningsih
#18. The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.
Isaiah Crowell
#19. Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. You have to find him at the darkest places of your heart in difficult times. And when you find the child; his smile will light up the darkness of your life.
Sandeep Sharma
#20. Saying it's hard is ultimately a justification to do what seems like the easiest thing to do
have the affair, stay at that horrible job, end a friendship over a slight, keep loving someone who treats you terribly.
Cheryl Strayed
#21. Each of us has a vulnerability like Edmund's that Satan is eager to exploit. It may be something addictive like drugs or alcohol, or it may be something seemingly harmless and perhaps even good like food, friendship, or work.
Discovery House Publishers
#22. There is no hospitality like understanding.
Vanna Bonta
#23. I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#24. Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful.
Nancy Thayer
#25. Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.
Kelly Link
#26. All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#27. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.
J.M. Darhower
#28. The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
Rabindranath Tagore
#29. What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian McKellen
#30. A friendship like theirs was hard to come by, and when such a thing is found, it is often even harder to hold on to.
But, as so few come to learn, absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.
Ross Turner
#31. Friendship is like a rose ... opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds ... day by day it reveals its true beauty.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#32. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
Taylor Swift
#33. I realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.
Melissa Bank
#34. We checked ourselves in the mirror before we left. We were flushed and a little rumpled, but in a good way. We looked vibrant, wild, happy. The hair and the clothes and the makeup made me feel like someone new, but the happy is what made me unrecognizable.
Allie Larkin
#35. Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
Elisabeth Of Wied
#36. Friendship is ageless. It is the spirit we should like and care for, not the shell that encases it.
Robert W. Sweeting
#37. And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
Emily Giffin
#38. It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?
A.A. Milne
#39. It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.
Olivia Wilde
#40. 26An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.
Anonymous
#41. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath
#42. My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.
Royal Robbins
#43. In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
Henry Ward Beecher
#44. Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
Russell Crowe
#45. True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.
Richard G. Scott
#46. Friendship is not like throwing a stone into well, it's about catching a stone while falling into well.
Saravanan
#47. Friendship is like a song, some may be a hit and last forever and some maybe be a waste of time and never to be heard of again
Zoe Prentice
#48. There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.
Nina LaCour
#49. We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether ... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
#51. Many women ... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important ... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.
Pam Farrel
#52. You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#53. Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard
#54. Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
John Green
#55. Nothing bonds two solitary individuals like a good shared drunk. This is a scientific fact. It's important, even necessary for the long-term welfare of the planet to get good and shit-faced with your neighbor every now and then.
Sol Luckman
#56. To be in the company of a Close friend is like the Beautiful Hymns of Heaven,Beware when these Beautiful Hymns start to become a choir of evilness,Now your the decider whether to Live in their Company or Leave their Company in search of a better one,For the best is just Pseudo
Abhishek Sundarraman
#57. An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship.
Gillian Flynn
#58. Losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.
Megan Crane
#59. You are unique in the world, a friend like no other. It's so amazing that we have so much in common so your happiness is also mine.
Auliq Ice
#61. Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.
Ron Hall
#62. No," Hal said. "The sea is moving constantly and you have to make little adjustments to keep it going smoothly. You can't take it for granted."
"Just like a friendship," she said smiling. And Hal nodded.
"Maybe that's why the word ends in ship," he said.
John Flanagan
#63. To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust
#64. The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.
Robert Breault
#65. Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#66. And just what would I gain if I go back to that place? I'll stop at a tree when I like it and I'll fly when I like it.How I live and where I live is up to me, got it? -Kagura
Hideaki Sorachi
#67. Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself I know. That is the astonishing gift of your art and your friendship: You gave us ourselves to think about, to cherish.
Toni Morrison
#68. That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.
Veronica Roth
#69. There is no friend like a book; there is no beauty like a kind heart.
Debasish Mridha
#70. People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#71. Then thre is Brian. It's been a slow-grow love with its roots in our friendship. We disagree about everything that's not important, like politics and religion, but agree on everything that is important, like where the dustpan and brush should live, and his sons' girlfriends.
Kate Kerrigan
#72. To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#73. Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. I wanted to tell it like it is, that they were right: it's nerve-wracking being a teenager. But instead, I explained to them the importance of being a trusted friend, and that friendship made the teenage years fun, when true camaraderie grew and developed.
Oddny Eir
#75. Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
Socrates
#76. friendship is like a glass. when it breaks it gets together but there are still cracks..everywhere..even if we want to buy a new one we can't.....
Amanda Lee
#77. There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
#78. Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zoo. It's a ridiculous endeavor and has a low probability of success, but most importantly, it is way easier if you're with a friend.
Amy Poehler
#79. Inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. So
Gillian Flynn
#80. A real friendship is like a marriage: for richer and poorer, for better and for worse. If the moment of truth comes, and you can't bear to make a sacrifice, what kind of friend are you?
Sean Stewart
#81. Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, "There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.
Philip Zaleski
#82. Being friendzoned is like standing near fire. You stand there to seek some warmth, but get burnt instead.
Toffee
#83. Sex is like God, really. I know they're both important, but if I think about them too much my head hurts." -The Best Kept Secret
Wendi Nunnery
#84. As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#85. I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
Jane Campion
#86. The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. What's so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn't any difference between people - well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?
Christopher Isherwood
#88. Friendship is not chosen, he said, it happens, who knows why, like love. And I haven't bestowed anything on you, but on myself; I respect men who remain magnanimous even in their misfortune.
Mesa Selimovic
#89. Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#90. In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.
Jules Renard
#91. I've got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty - everything I don't like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
E.B. White
#92. Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.
Damien Echols
#93. Zach is like the more I think about it the more I think y ruin a gr8 friendship? I still think tiny's awesome tho.
John Green
#94. He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married.
John G. Hartness
#95. Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.
C.S. Lewis
#97. These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
Alanis Morissette
#98. ... helping each other to have a true gaze on reality, on the circumstances we are living in, is the first gesture of friendship we can offer each other for living like human beings in the presence of the needs of the world.
Julian Carron
#99. Friendship is like a carriage. It does not drive itself. Particularly when the road gets rocky.
M.A. Larson
#100. Your friendship is quite valuable to me because I know you are not on my side.
Rather you are a free, evolving spirit, allied with other like minds.
Enemy to arrogance and loyal to the bitter truth.
Anonymous