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 quote some of them and bring to you a handful of their 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). Happy Friendship Day to you and all your friends!

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

Quotes on Friends
Ancient Quotes :
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
~ Aristotle

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
~ Aristotle

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
~ Cicero

Contemporary Quotes:
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
~ Saint Jerome

"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships--the ones that last--
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more
than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...suddenly
the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
~ Dana Scully (The X-Files)

Friendship involves man things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
~ Thomas Huxley

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
~ Lois L. Kaufman

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
~ John Evelyn

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
~ Baltasar Gracian

"Friendship needs no words..."
~ Dag Hammarskjold

"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

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter."
~ James Fennimore Cooper

"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
~ James Francis Byrnes

"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

"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
~ Robert Alan

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
~ Kahil Gibran

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
~ Eustace Budgell

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
~ Lord Byron

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
~ Kahil Gibran

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
~ Samuel Johnson

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
~ La Rochefoucauld

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
~ Charles Peguy

"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
~ William Penn

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

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~ Henry David Thoreau

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
~ George Washington

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
~ Thomas Wilson

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton

"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
~ Emma Stacey

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Anonymous Quotes:
"Be careful of what you say, friendship can end in one minute because of a stupid word."

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."

Building a friendship is like planting a quote.

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some kind of mark on it forever."

"A friendship that stops existing, was actually never there."

"You will never have a perfect friendship,
but you must strive for one."

"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."

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