Friendship Quotes

“My friends are my estate.”

Emily Dickinson

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

Muhammad Ali

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

Lord Byron

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.”

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.”

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

“True friends stab you in the front.”

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”

George Washington

“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.”

Thomas Jefferson

“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”

Samuel Johnson

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”

Jane Austen

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”

L. M. Montgomery

"Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

A. A. Milne

“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”

Epicurus

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

Confucius

“True friendship is like the hand that instantly catches a slipping garment.”

Thiruvalluvar

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

English Proverb

“Friends have all things in common.”