Friendship Sayings

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton


"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."
- Anais Nin


"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson


"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."
-Walter Winchell


"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein


"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts


"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha


"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus


"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam


"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- Author Unknown


"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation"


"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard


"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard


"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon


"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
- Mary Catherwood


"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


"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln


"One's best friend is oneself."
- Author Unknown


"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"
- Author Unknown


"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
- Guido


"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow."
-Cher


"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
- Francois Mocuriac


"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.
True friendship is never serene."
- Mariede Svign


"Friends are God's way of taking care of us.
It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrick


"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
- Robert Louis Stevenson


"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
- Collins English Dictionary


"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
- Emma Stacey


"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
- Oscar Wilde


"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare


"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt


"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa


"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin


"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle


"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain


"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero


"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert


"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle


"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome


"I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
- William Shakespeare


"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
- Thomas Jefferson


"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak."
- John Donne


"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
- John Boyle O'Reilly


"Friends have all things in common."
- Plato


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


"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford