Some Famous Friendship Quotes

Friendship Day is the time to appreciate and pay a tribute to that wonderful person called the friend without whom we can never make do with this world. Great men and women all over the world have, from time to time, understood the importance of having friends and the power of the beautiful relation called friendship. And so they have praised their own friends; pondered over the greatness of friendship and commented on what goes on to make an ideal friend in glorious verses and pithy sayings. Here we bring to you a handful of quotes from some of their most memorable sayings on friends and friendship. Scroll down and go over our grand collection of Friendship Day quotes that range from the funny to the reflective. You can also use these quotes about friends and friendship in your cards, gifts and crafts for Friendship Day! If that is not your way, you can just click here and directly send this page to your pals (or any person you want). Imbibe the spirit of Friendship Day with these thoughtful Friendship Day quotes. Happy Friendship Day to you and all your friends!

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Check out a grand assemblage of some memorable quotes on friends. Enjoy these time-honoured sayings and have a rocking Friendship Day celebration with your buddies.

Quotes on Friends

Ancient Quotes :

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
~ Confucius

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
~ Epicurus

"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
~ Euripides

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
~ Homer

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
~ Bible: Ecclesiastes

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
~ Euripides

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
~ The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
~ Artistotle

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
~ Apocrypha

Contemporary Quotes:

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
~ Jerome Cummings

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

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." ~ Richard Bach

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

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else."
~ Anonymous

"In a friend you find a second self."
~ Isabelle Norton

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
~ Richard Bach

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."
~ Richard Bach

"Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"
~ Richard Bach

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven

"Love is temporary...but friends are forever."
~ Kelly Wheeler

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

"You only meet your once in a lifetime friend... once in a lifetime."
~ from Little Rascals

"...no man is useless
while he has a friend."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friends are born, not made."
~ Henry Adams

"Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
~ Ana Nin

"A friend is like an oreo,
its not always that great,
but it always gets better!"
~ Erin Westbrook

I thank God for the way he made you, distinct, special and
unique. You were not made from a common mold.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer

"To know someone here or there
with whom you can feel
there is understanding
in spite of distances or
thoughts expressed
That can make life a garden."
~ Goethe

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead
Just walk beside me and be my friend."
~ Albert Carnus

"Friends are born, not made."
~ Henry Adams

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
~ Lee Iacocca

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
~ Albert Schweitzer

"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential."
~ Rusty Berkus

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

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
~ Dale Carnegie

"Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me."
~ Gravestone from the 1800s

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be your friend was all I ever wanted;
to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."
~ Valerie Lombardo

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

"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
~ Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

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

"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
~ Henry David Thoreau

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for
that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.
Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
~ Charles R. Swindoll

Where there are friends, there is wealth.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus

Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we utterly trust.
~ George MacDonald

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

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

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

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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

"Friends are the sunshine of life."
~ John Hay

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
~ Hasidic Saying

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

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

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
~ Pietro Aretino

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

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
~ James Boswell

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good friend is my nearest relation."
~ Thomas Fuller

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

"Your friend is your needs answered."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"Let your best be for your friend..."
~ Kahlil Gibran

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

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
~ Bernard Meltzer

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

"A friend is a present you give yourself."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
~ Mark Twain

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

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.
~ Mary Dixon Thayer

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~ Leo Buscaglia

It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.
~ Marlene Dietrich

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
~ Samuel Paterson

Good friends are good for your health.
~ Irwin Sarason

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
~ Virginia Woolf

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
~ Doug Larson

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
~ Len Wein

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
~ Anais Nin

"My friends are my estate."
~ Emily Dickinson

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."
~ Walter Winchell

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
~ Elbert Hubard

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
~ John Lennon

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
~ Mary Catherwood

"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
~ Collins English Dictionary

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
~ Oscar Wilde

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
~ William Shakespeare

Anonymous Quotes:

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

"A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be."

"The better you know someone, the less there is to say.
Or maybe, there's less that needs to be said."

"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."

"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer."

"The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

"A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand...and touches your heart."

"How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to."

"Some people come into our lives,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never the same."

"I don't remember how we happened to meet each other.
I don't remember who got along with whom first.
All I can remember is all of us together...always."

"A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!"

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."

"A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you."

"It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it."

"Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life."

"When a friend's in trouble,
don't insult him by asking what you can do,
think for yourself and start doing it."

"A brother is not always a friend,
but a friend is always a brother."

"Never hurt your friends, not even in a joke."

"He who searches for friends without faults,
will never have a friend."

"A person who has no friends,
lives only half way."

"Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life."

"Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."