“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
Kahlil Gibran

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FRIENDSHIP
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 there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.”Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”Martin Luther King Jr.
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.”
Fred Rogers
“Friendship is equality.”
Pythagoras
“Whoever throws away a loyal friend is as foolish as one who throws away his own life.”
Sophocles
“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.”
Aesop
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas
“Without friends, the world is but a wilderness.”
Francis Bacon
“Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.”William Shakespeare
“Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”
Samuel Johnson
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but more in visiting them seldom.”Benjamin Franklin
“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.”
Thomas Jefferson
“They cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”Henry David Thoreau
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Charles Dickens
“There's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”
Hilaire Belloc
“A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
Lois Wyse
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
Amy Poehler
“A friend is someone you share the path with.”
African Proverb
“There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.”
Irish Proverb
“A life without a friend is a life without a sun.”
German Proverb
“A friend's eye is a good mirror.”
Irish Proverb
“Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper.”
Swahili Proverb