Top 100 Quotes About Friendship
#1. Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.
Jeffrey Fry
#2. We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world. Friendship we pretend. Relationships we hide. But worst of all is the love we never let show; the most dangerous secret a person can bury are those we keep for ourselves.
Kevin McCarty
#3. Stay together, friends.
Don't scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made
of being awake.
Rumi
#5. I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.
Doug Sahm
#6. I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.
Drew Barrymore
#7. Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.
J.K. Rowling
#8. One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship.
Jules Verne
#9. Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
Richard Stallman
#10. The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.
Lillian B. Rubin
#11. Friendship is a combination of art and craft. The craft part is in knowing how to give and how to take. The art part is in knowing when, and the whole process only works when no one is keeping track.
E.L. Konigsburg
#12. He was Gully Foyle, the oiler, wiper, bunkerman; too easy for trouble, too slow for fun, too empty for friendship, too lazy for love.
Alfred Bester
#13. Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path
Abdu'l- Baha
#14. Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
Andre Maurois
#15. If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
Hugh Prather
#16. We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur Ashe
#17. An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.
Greg Behrendt
#18. Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
Katherine Philips
#19. Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#20. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.
Eustace Budgell
#21. Friendship is a choice. more to the point, it is a series of ongoing choices, with consequences for each person.
Kelly McClymer
#22. True friendship, the kind the whims of life cannot break, cannot stop or limit, true friendship of this sort, you will probably find only once, and then only if you're lucky.
Emil Ostrovski
#23. God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
Ray Bradbury
#24. I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
Joseph Conrad
#25. Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
Isaac D'Israeli
#26. My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.
Krystian Zimerman
#27. Every life contains the seed of death, he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#28. In his eyes, those dazzling near-black eyes, more important to me than our love or lust or friendship, was a look of pure trust.
Jim Provenzano
#29. There are no friends; only moments of friendship.
Jules Renard
#30. That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles
#31. Debate, but do not argue.
Challenge, but do not force your opinions.
To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.
To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
Benjamin Cheever
#33. I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.
Jorge Luis Borges
#34. People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Lisa See
#35. Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change
Richard G. Scott
#37. In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
Lord Chesterfield
#38. My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go [ ... ] If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change [ ... ] Move on.
RuPaul
#39. Friendship is a gift forever;
Cherish everyday, forget it never
Debasish Mridha
#40. Friendship?
...
You wanna know what's friendship?
...
A Symbol of getting easily fucked up.
Deyth Banger
#41. I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice Walker
#42. Sundown- When the sun must make peace with the moon and for a few brief moments, the two touch in mutual friendship and respect. Perfect balance between the light and dark. A time for reflection and for preparation.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,
a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#44. A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.
Joseph Addison
#45. The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home ... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion ... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#46. Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
B.C. Forbes
#47. They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will last until you are so old that the humped veins on the back of your hands show dark blue-purple through your wax-white skin.
Peter Dickinson
#48. Sometimes in life, people get closer, but their bonds wither in no time like the vapor. It takes just a moment to know somebody and it takes just a second to connect with somebody, but the journey there on is the ultimate thing! The true meaning of true friendship is always given by the friends!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#49. If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
Ray Bradbury
#50. In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#51. Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
Ann Landers
#52. Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.
Jean De La Bruyere
#53. Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I'd thought and I actually had lots of friends.
Karen Joy Fowler
#54. There's no better time to celebrate friendship than when things are at their worst.
Daniel Suarez
#55. Love in any relationship, family or an intimate friendship, is only about putting the other person's needs ahead of your own, and that, my friend, is just as simple and as complex as you make it.
Twinkle Khanna
#56. Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.
Dale Carnegie
#57. Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
Courtney Milan
#58. That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
Samuel Johnson
#59. Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!
Andrea Michaels
#60. I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau
#61. Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.
Jim George
#62. Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
#63. Is it the pauses, not the parties, that create the friendship?
Lynette Chiang
#64. What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
Terry Tempest Williams
#65. The exchange of thoughts is a condition necessary for all love, all friendship and all real dialogue. Two men who can speak together can enrich and broaden themselves indefinitely.
Jorge Luis Borges
#66. Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
#67. Friendship makes the impossible possible!
Lily Amis
#70. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
#71. Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends
Luis J. Rodriguez
#72. The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.
Thomas Hardy
#73. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
#75. A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,
by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,
becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#76. For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.
Christopher Hitchens
#77. Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.
Charlaine Harris
#79. Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.
Ovid
#80. Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
Josh Billings
#81. The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#82. No one can mark the exact moment at which friendship becomes love.
C.S. Lewis
#83. Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler
#84. I think every day is made up of tiny little tests. Some are tests of character. Some are tests of fortitude. Others are tests of friendship. And if you're lucky, when it really matters, you'll pass with flying colors.
J. D
#86. The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
#87. When Perry and I walked into the hospital waiting room and I saw her sitting there, I began to cry, because that's what friendship looks like: knowing your friend better than she knows herself and being there to hold her hand while her heart breaks.
Melanie Shankle
#88. Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.
Lord Chesterfield
#89. Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.
E.L. Konigsburg
#92. It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past ...
C.S. Lewis
#93. Recipe for friendship:
2 cups of TRUST, 1 dash of CARING, 2 cups of UNDERSTANDING, 2 spoonfuls of SHARED SECRETS, 1 cup of MUTUAL AFFECTION, 1 spoonful of CRAZY, and a whole bag of FUN
Karen Gibbs
#94. O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of
disappointment.
Oliver Goldsmith
#95. When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known ... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
Alice Hoffman
#96. Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
Barbara Tuchman
#97. Look to what you have around you and be grateful, instead of searching for more. All you take with you when you leave this world is love, friendship, and good deeds.
Sylvia Browne
#98. The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#99. I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
Jessye Norman
