Friendship Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

My friends are my estate.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.