Friendship Quotes, Quotations and Sayings - Page 8
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Ecclesiasticus
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
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
La Rochefoucauld
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation…
Oscar Wilde
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O’Keeffe
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Swedish Proverb
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Rod McKuen
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Sheridan Norton
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
Anonymous
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies’ fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
Stephanie Barron
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
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
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
Real Live Preacher
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
I’ve learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
Anonymous
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
American Proverb
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
Anonymous
Please submit only relevant quotes