Friends Quotes and Sayings

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb

God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.
Proverb

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero

A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.
Anonymous

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has a “best friend” during each stage of life-only a precious few have the same one.
Anonymous

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller

When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid’s perfume.
Anonymous

Search not for a friend in time of need, for a true friend shall find thee.
Anonymous

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
Anonymous

It is best not to try to get the best of your best friend.
Anonymous

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
Edith Wharton

A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.
Anonymous

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller

We are advertised by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman

Every time I hold you I begin to understand, that everything about you tells me you’re my best friend.
Anonymous

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley Maclaine

The best vitamin for making friends: B1
Anonymous