Happy Friendship Quotes:

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, True Love, Real Friends, Making Friends, New Friendship

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

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, New Friendship, Special Friendship

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

- Elie Wiesel

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

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

I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Lonely, Heart, Moon, Bff, Cute Friendship

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Love, Inspirational, True Friend, Breathtaking, Sunny Disposition

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

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Civil War, Meaningful Friendship, One Friend

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Friendship, Patience, Real Friends, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational 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

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

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

- Charles Lamb

source: "The Works of Charles Lamb".

topic: Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend, Bff, Cute Friendship

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

- Gloria Naylor

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

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

- John Churton Collins

topic: Friendship, Adversity, Prosperity, Meaningful Friendship, Imaginary Friend

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

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Philosophical, Songs And Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

Best friends listen to what you don't say.

- Samantha Norman

topic: Friendship, Making Friends, Bff, Anon, Cute Friendship

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Love, Friendship, Positive, Tigger, Bff

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Art, Philosophy, Men, New Friendship, Songs And Friendship

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, Making Friends, Inspiring Friends

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs, Making Friends, Bff

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Looks, World, Easy, Inspirational Friendship, Musicianship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

topic: Friendship, Money, Funny Friend, Making Friends, Bff

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Friendship, Best Friend, Special Friendship, Blind Love

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Friendship, Thankful, Real, Good Friendship, Good Fortune

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Friendship, Grief, Healing, Making Friends, Bff

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

- Tim McGraw

topic: Teamwork, Bridges, Bottom, My Friendship, Funny Best Friends Forever

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Philosophical, Friends Forever, One Friend

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Clever, Friends And Enemies, Precious Friends

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 Breault

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

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Pain, Being Alone, Hands, Bff, Female Friends

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Failure, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Simple, Simplicity, World, Possible Love, Scarecrow

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

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

topic: Friendship, Fun, Live Life, Making Friends, New Friendship

Friends make life a lot more fun.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Friendship, Fun, Making Friends, New Friendship, Special Friendship

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

- Samuel Johnson

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

- Epicurus

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Leadership, Lasting Friendship, Great Friendship

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

- Richard Bach

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

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

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Heart, Songs And Friendship, Losing Friends

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

topic: Friendship, Memorable, Acceptance, Inspirational Friendship, Inspiring Friends

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

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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Life, Friendship, Real Friends, Making Friends, Female Friends