Friendship Quotes

73. If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

^{Alice Miller}

74. Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

^{John Webster}

75. As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

^{King Solomon}

76. The best time to make friends is before you need them.

^{Ethel Barrymore}

77. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

^{Doug Larson}

78. You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal. – Friendship Quotes

^{Elizabeth Taylor}

79. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

^{Thomas A. Edison}

80. A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

^{Francois de La Rochefoucauld}

81. My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.

^{Jodie Foster}

82. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

^{Taylor Swift}

83. How delightful to find a friend in everyone. – Friendship Quotes

^{Joseph Brodsky}

84. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

^{Nathaniel Hawthorne}

85. You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.

^{Laurence J. Peter}

86. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. – Friendship Quotes

^{Jean de la Bruyere}

87. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

^{Katherine Mansfield}

88. Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t. – Friendship Quotes

^{Judy Holliday}

89. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

^{Margaret Lee Runbeck}

90. Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

^{Augustine Birrell}

91. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

92. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

93. Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. – Friendship Quotes

^{Amos Bronson Alcott}

94. Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

^{Dag Hammarskjold}

95. 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}

96. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – Friendship Quotes

^Unknown

97. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

^{Francesco Guicciardini}

98. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. – Friendship Quotes

^Plautus

99. The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

^{Giotto di Bondone}

100. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

^{Shirley MacLaine}

Friendship Quotes 101 – 200

101. One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. – Friendship Quotes

^{George Santayana}

102. You win the victory when you yield to friends.

^Sophocles

103. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

^{Anne Morrow Lindbergh}

104. Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. – Friendship Quotes

^{Frederick William Faber}

105. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. – Friendship Quotes

^{Charles Eastman}

106. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

^{Charles Kingsley}

107. The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? – Friendship Quotes

^{Eugene Kennedy}

108. When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

^{E. W. Howe}

109. Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

^{Samuel Pepys}

110. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. – Friendship Quotes

^Euripides

111. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

^{Thomas Aquinas}

112. Friends are born, not made. – Friendship Quotes

^{Henry Adams}

113. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

114. A friend is, as it were, a second self. – Friendship Quotes

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

115. Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

^Chanakya

116. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

^{Henry David Thoreau}

117. A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}