My Friendship Quotes:

I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family.

- Patricia Clarkson

topic: My Family, Stunning, My Friendship

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

- Jean-Claude Juncker

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Different, Contrast, My Friendship

My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.

- Martin Amis

source: Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.241, Random House

topic: May, Months, My Friendship

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

- Euripides

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

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

- Elie Wiesel

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

How many slams in an old screen door?  Depends how loud you shut it.  How many slices in a bread?  Depends how thin you cut it.  How much good inside a day?  Depends how good you live 'em.  How much love inside a friend?  Depends how much you give 'em.”  ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

- Stephanie Klein

topic: Cutting, Doors, Giving, Good Friendship, My Friendship

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

- St. Jerome

topic: Real, Losing Friends, My Friendship, Losing Friendship, Circle Of Friends

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

- Caroline Norton

source: Caroline Sheridan Norton (1853). “The Undying One: And Other Poems”, p.209

topic: Friendship, School, Sunshine, New Friendship, Bff

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

- Otto von Bismarck

topic: Funny Friend, Love Is, Trying, Bff, Cute Friendship

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Friendship, Foundation, Sake, My Friendship, Many Friends

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

- Mencius

topic: Brother, Sibling, My Friendship, Chinese Philosopher, Friend Valentine

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

- George Washington

topic: Friendship, Confidence, Inspiration, Bff, Courteous

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

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

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Fall, Snow, Advice, Snow Falling, My Friendship

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

- Thomas Watson, Jr.

topic: Friendship, Character, Entrepreneur, Inspiring Friends, My Friendship

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

- Sophocles

topic: Kindness, Real, Accepting, My Friendship, Human Kindness

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.88, Faber & Faber

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday, Making Friends, My Friendship

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

- Mark Twain

topic: Friendship, Inspirational Life, Real Friends, Life Love Friendship, My Friendship

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Family, New Friendship, My Friendship

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends, Moments With Friends, Sweet Friendship

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

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Adoption, New Friendship, My Friendship

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

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Female Friends

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 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

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

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

- Arthur Brisbane

topic: Friendship, Good Friend, May, Good Friendship, Cute Friendship

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

- Eugene Kennedy

source: "The Promise of Friendship". Book by Kathy Wagoner, 2002.

topic: Friendship, Real, Simple, Inspiring Friends, Lasting Friendship

Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.

- Anna Mickelson

topic: Friendship, Death, Tombstone, My Friendship, Best 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

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

- Francois Mauriac

topic: Love, Friendship, Best Friend, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

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

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

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Men, Lasting Friendship, My Friendship

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Heart, Live For Others, My Friendship

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, My Friendship, Wonderful Friendship

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

- Henri Nouwen

source: "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

topic: Love, Friendship, Pain, Bff, Female Friends

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Love, Friendship, Inspiration, Cute Friendship, Amazing Friend

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Life Love And Friendship

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Relationship, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Positive, Lasting Friendship, One Friend

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

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

- Rod McKuen

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Waiting, My Friendship, Losing Friendship

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

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

- George Eliot

topic: Best Friend, Feelings, Comfort, Bff, Female Friends

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

- Joe Cocker

topic: Friendship, Littles, Helping, Songs And Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

- Henry Adams

topic: Friendship, Two, Three, Inspiring Friends, One Friend

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

topic: Friendship, Kindness, Blessing, Female Friends, Inspirational Relationship