Friendship Over Quotes:

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

- Jamie Farr

topic: Years, Friendship Over, Acquaintance

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

- Plutarch

topic: Friendship, Change, Real Friends, Inspiring Friends, Starting Anew

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

- Euripides

source: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

topic: Friendship, Positive, Real Friends, Inspirational Friendship, I Am Selfish

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

topic: Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend, New Friendship, Sound Doctrine

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

topic: Love, Friendship, Happy, Bff, Songs And Friendship

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Adventure, New Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Friendship, Loneliness, Real Friends, Making Friends, Bff

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

- Richard Bach

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Christmas Gift, Friendship Day

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Mark, Special Friend, Inspirational Friendship, Life Love And Friendship, Friends Forever

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

- Ed Cunningham

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiring Friends, People In Your Life

Your friend is your needs answered.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends, New Friendship, Precious Friends

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- George Eliot

topic: Love, Friendship, Relationship, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship

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

- Len Wein

source: "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Patience, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Patience, Celebrating With Friends, Great Friendship

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet, Songs And Friendship, Special Friendship

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

- Octavia Butler

topic: Friendship, Letting Go, Art, Songs And Friendship, Special Friendship

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends, New Friendship, Eternal Friendship

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

- Walter Winchell

source: Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

topic: Friendship, Real, World, Making Friends, New Friendship

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Letting Go, Kindness, Blow, Making Friends, Bff

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.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Making Friends, Inspirational Friendship

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Positive, Thinking, May, Bff, Friends Forever

The best mirror is an old friend.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

topic: Mirrors, Old Friends, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship, Loyal Friend

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Friendship, Laughter, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Morning Dew

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Real, Life Is, Human Life, Sweeteners, Wonderful Friendship

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

- Solomon

source: John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Fall, Two Best Friends, Good Friendship

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

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship, Bff, Songs And Friendship

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Love, Friendship, Patience, Sweet Friendship, Qualities Of A Friend

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

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Memories, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Friendship with oneself is all important.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

topic: Friendship, Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Trustworthiness, Loyal Friend

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend, Bff, Life Love And Friendship

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

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

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

topic: Friendship, Inspiration, 4th Of July, Making Friends, Courteous

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

- Eustace Budgell

topic: Relationship, Strong, Two, Meaningful Friendship, Good Friendship

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

- Omar Khayyam

source: Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

topic: Friendship, Enemy, Few Friends, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Cute, Friendship, Thankful, New Friendship, True Wealth

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Friends Show, Songs And Friendship, Special Friend

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Wise, True Friend, Answers, Friendship Over, Honest Friends

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Marriage, Joy And Grief, Joy To The World

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

- Homer

topic: Friendship, Family, Brother, Sympathy For A Friend, Friendship Over

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Life, Friendship, Birthday, Making Friends, Inspiring Friends

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

- Chinmayananda Saraswati

source: "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

topic: Love, I Love My Friends, Friendship Over, Happiness Love

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Heart, Two Friends, Friends Come And Go, Making Friends, Special Friendship

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

source: Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Treasure, My Friendship, Friendship Over

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

- Charles Peguy

source: "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, ("The Search for Truth"), 1943.

topic: Real, Real Friends, Love Is, Qualities Of A Friend, Friendship Over

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Book, Friendship Over, Happy Friendship

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

- Sydney Smith

source: Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.178

topic: Love, Friendship, Happiness, I Love My Friends, Friendship Over

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Never Forget, Forget, Forget Me, Tigger, I Ll Miss You

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

- William Penn

topic: Friendship, Air, Friendship Love, Choosing Friends, Friendship Over

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

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, True Friend, Impossible To Forget, Making Friends