Friends Quotes and Sayings

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Homer

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Ecclesiasticus

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

We really don’t have enemies. It’s just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
Anonymous

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Pam Brown

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Anais Nin

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides

You are one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. You’re my love and my best friend. And every day that goes by, it seems like I discover something new about you to love. It’s incredible to me how one person can make such a big difference in my life. You touch my heart in a way I never knew before. I discover something new about you to love. It’s incredible to me how one person can make such a big difference in my life.
Anonymous

A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages - first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
Anton Chekhov

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

The road to a friend’s house is never long.
Danish Proverb

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
Anonymous

The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
Doug Larson

A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
William Shakespeare