Short Friend Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

- Ethel Barrymore

topic: Friendship, Needs, Making Friends, Inspirational Friendship, Friend In Need

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

- Henry Ford

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius

topic: Two, Mind, Body, Making Friends, Bff

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Patience, Life Love And Friendship, Life Love Friendship

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

- Rod McKuen

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship, Making Friends, Bff

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

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

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

source: Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Falling In Love, Real, Profound, Short Friend, Nice Friend

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

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

- Robert Breault

topic: Real, Silly, Needs, Being Silly, Funny Friendship

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

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

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

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship, Bff, 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

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 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

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 is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Friendship, College, Institutions, Meaning Of Friendship, Loyal Friend

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

- Douglas Pagels

source: Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

topic: Relationship, Making Friends, Bff, Meeting New Friends, Inspirational Friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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 man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness, Discovering Self, Discovering Your True Self

I get by with a little help from my friends.

- John Lennon

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

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

- Eustache Deschamps

topic: Friendship, Making Friends, Bff, Lasting Friendship, Friends Forever

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

- Joe Cocker

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Making Friends, Not Friends

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