Friends Quotes

Here are some famous friends quotes and sayings. Everyone needs a friend and here is what many famous personalities have had to say about friends and their experiences with friendship. Remember to make time for your friends and to cherish those relationships. Included are quotes from people such as Shakespeare, Aristotle, Shirley MacLaine, Thomas A. Edison and Henry David Thoreau.

Friends Quotes and Sayings

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
Author Unknown

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
William Shakespeare

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

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

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.
Edward W. Howe

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

If 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.
Edgar Watson Howe

One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
D.H. Lawrence

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
Dorothy Parker

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
Author Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.
Author Unknown

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

Quotes about Friends

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle

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

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasgow

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Pam Brown

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

Quotes about Friends Changing

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.
Terri Guillemets

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

Friendship Quotes

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

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
Author Unknown

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
Author Unknown

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

Being Friends Quotes

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle

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

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasgow

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
Author Unknown

If 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.
Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold Glasow

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley

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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life; he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry

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

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
Grace Pulpit

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

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