The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
- Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. – Friendship Quotes
Margaret Walker
- No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
- Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. – Friendship Quotes
Bill Watterson
- Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. – Friendship Quotes
Virginia Woolf
- In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran
- One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
- It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Friendship Quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. – Friendship Quotes
Oprah Winfrey
- True friends stab you in the front. – Friendship Quotes
Oscar Wilde
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
- A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Friendship Quotes
Jim Morrison
- A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. – Friendship Quotes
Charles Darwin
- Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
- Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
- A friend is what the heart needs all the time. – Friendship Quotes
Henry Van Dyke
- But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. – Friendship Quotes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
- There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya
- My friends are my estate. – Friendship Quotes
Emily Dickinson
- A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
- Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Friendship Quotes
Benjamin Franklin
- A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
- The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. – Friendship Quotes
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius
- Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. – Friendship Quotes
Robert E. Lee
- If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
- Friendship and money: oil and water. – Friendship Quotes
Mario Puzo
- A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. – Friendship Quotes
Len Wein
- When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
- Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. – Friendship Quotes
Herman Melville
- Friends are the best to turn to when you’re having a rough day. – Friendship Quotes
Justin Bieber
- I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint Augustine

Friends are the best to turn to when you’re having a rough day.
Justin Bieber
- Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. – Friendship Quotes
Sarah Orne Jewett
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
- A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales
- False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
- Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better. – Friendship Quotes
E. W. Howe
- A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. – Friendship Quotes
Robert Hall
- Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan
- Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Friendship Quotes
Henry David Thoreau
- It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. – Friendship Quotes
Mignon McLaughlin
- There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. – Friendship Quotes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle