46 Best Quotes About Friendship

 Quotes About Friendship

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. 
-Robert Breault

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportuntiy. 
-Kahlil Gibran

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. 
-Thomas Aquinas

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. 
-Abraham Lincoln

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
-John Lennon

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. 
-Bernard Meltzer

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? 
-Abraham Lincoln

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
-Robert Brault

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. 
-Walter Winchell

It is better to be alone than in bad company. 
-George Washington

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. 
-Joseph Conrad

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. 
-Helen Keller

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding. 
-Sri Chinmoy

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
-Solomon Ibn Gabirol

What is a friend? I will tell you..it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. 
-Frank Crane

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.
-Tehyi Hsieh

Keep your friendships in repair. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. 
-Mark Twain

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. 
-Marlene Dietrich

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
-Henry David Thoreau

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. 
-John Leonard

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. 
-Japanese Proverb

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. 
-C.J. Langenhoven

No man is useless while he has a friend.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. 
-Euripides

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. 
-William Shakespeare

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
-Benjamin Franklin

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. 
-Elbert Hubbard

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
-John Marsden

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
-Hillaire Belloc

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. 
-Margaret Walker

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
-Apocrypha

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
-Henry David Thoreau

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. 
-Claude Mermet

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-Abraham Lincoln

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
-Edward Everett Hale

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
-Woodrow Wilson

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. 
-Albert Camus

They are not your friends until they have defended you in your absence.

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. 
-Samuel Paterson

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
-La Rochefoucauld

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. 
-Cindy Lew

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
-Doug Larson