Friendship Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

A hedge between keeps friendship green.
Proverb

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust

A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.
Desmond Morris

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Menclus

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it.
Simone Weil

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

Friendship is Love, without his wings.
Lord Byron

If 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.
Edgar Watson Howe

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
Dorothy Parker

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.
Adabella Radici

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero

Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.
Sare and Cate

A good friend is my nearest relation.
Proverb

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Brandi Snyder

Friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever.
Anonymous

Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
Deng Ming Dao

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
Buddha

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