Friendship Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

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

The verb “to love” in Persian is “to have a friend.” “I love you” translated literally is “I have you as a friend,” and “I don’t like you” simply means “I don’t have you as a friend.”
Shusha Guppy

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. Somerset Maugham

The only rose without a thorn is friendship.
Anonymous

True friendship is self-love at secondhand.
William Hazlitt

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

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

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Anonymous

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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?
Eugene Kennedy

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Cicero

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman

Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton

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

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

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar Wilde

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

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
Swedish proverb

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, Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates

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

One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love.
Anonymous