Unique Friendship Quotes:

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

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

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

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Thinking, Infertility, Times Have Changed

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inner Life, I Am Thankful

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

- Ethel Barrymore

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

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

- Jim Morrison

source: "Indulge In Your Friendships — The Best Reinvention Of Them All" by Kathi Sharpe-Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

topic: Friendship, Being Yourself, Freedom, Meaning Of Friendship, Inspirations Being Yourself

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

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

- William Penn

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

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

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

- Aristotle

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

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

- Rod McKuen

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

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, Friendship, Happiness, Benevolent, Not Friends

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Self, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

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

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

- John Churton Collins

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

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

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

True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love, Stabbing, Inspirational Friendship

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

topic: Friendship, Break Up, Heartbreak, Mending A Broken Heart, Love And Heartbreak

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Swapping, Not Friends

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

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Real, Real Friends, Stabbing, Backstabbing, Who Your Real Friends Are

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

- George Santayana

topic: Life, Motivational, Friendship, One Friend, Party Invitations

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

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

- William Blake

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