“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anaïs Nin
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Friendship Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FRIENDSHIP
Friendship Quotes
Read 200 of the best friendship quotes from Helen Keller, C.S. Lewis, Aristotle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Twain, Thiruvalluvar and more about true friends and best friends.
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
GratitudeHappiness
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
SupportHard Times
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley
LoyaltyHonesty
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
UnityWorld
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
GratitudeGift
“Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name.”Mahatma Gandhi
HonestyRespect
“Friendship is not for laughing together, but for rebuking when one goes astray.”
Thiruvalluvar
HonestyTrue Friendship
“Friendship is not mere smiles on the face; it is the love that smiles from deep within the heart.”
Thiruvalluvar
HeartTrue Friendship
“He is a true friend who stands by you in misfortune, in famine, in war, at the king's court and at the cremation ground.”
Chanakya
LoyaltyHard Times
“A friend is one who warns you.”
Arabic Proverb
HonestyShort Quotes
“Hold a true friend with both hands.”
African Proverb
LoyaltyShort Quotes
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
Irish Proverb
LuckBest Friends
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
Japanese Proverb
KindnessWarmth
“A sure friend is known in unsure times.”
Ennius
Hard TimesLoyalty
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
LoyaltyHard Times
“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old FriendsReunion
“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.”
Thomas Hughes
BlessingsGift
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Washington Irving
DistanceMemories
“Nothing is more dangerous than a foolish friend; a wise enemy is preferable.”
Jean de La Fontaine
WisdomChoosing Friends
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
Voltaire
WitSoul
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
Thomas Fuller
True FriendsGratitude
“A true friend freely advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
William Penn
True FriendsLoyalty
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
John Dryden
AdversitySacred Bond
“Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
EncouragementWit