Quotes about friends

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

— Irish Toast

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

— Source Unknown

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

— Source Unknown

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

— Source Unknown

A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

— Source Unknown

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

— Source Unknown

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

— Source Unknown

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

— Source Unknown

A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

— Source Unknown

A man is known by the company he avoids.

— Source Unknown

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

— Source Unknown

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

— Source Unknown

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

— Source Unknown

Make friends before you need them

— Source Unknown

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

— Source Unknown

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

— Source Unknown

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

— Source Unknown

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

— Source Unknown

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

— Source Unknown

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

— Source Unknown

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

— Source Unknown

Friendship is love with understanding.

— Source Unknown

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

— Source Unknown

There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

— Source Unknown

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

— Source Unknown

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

— Source Unknown

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

— Source Unknown

May I always be worth of my friends.

— Source Unknown

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

— Source Unknown

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

— Source Unknown

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

— Source Unknown

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

— Source Unknown

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

— Source Unknown

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

— Source Unknown

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

— Source Unknown

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

— Source Unknown

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

— Source Unknown

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

— Source Unknown

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

— Source Unknown

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

— Source Unknown

Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

— Source Unknown

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

— Source Unknown

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

— Source Unknown

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

— Source Unknown

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

— Source Unknown

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

— Source Unknown

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

— Leon Uris

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

— Henry Van Dyke

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

— Voltaire

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

— Alice Walker

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

— Horace Walpole

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

— Izaak Walton

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

— Arch Ward

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

— Charles Dudley Warner

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

— George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

— George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

— George Washington

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

— Thomas J. Watson

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

— Evelyn Waugh

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

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

— Simone Weil

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

— Len Wein

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

— Fay Weldon

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

— Elwyn Brooks White

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

— Somers White

Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

— Walt Whitman

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

— Thomas Wilson

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

— Walter Winchell

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Virginia Woolf

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

— William Wordsworth

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

— William Wycherley

And say my glory was I had such friends.

— William Butler Yeats

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.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

— Brigham Young

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

— Dumas The Younger

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

— Zig Ziglar

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

Star friendship.— We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from ourselves as if we had reason to feel ashamed. We are two ships each of which has its goal and course; our paths may cross and we may celebrate a feast together, as we did—and then the good ships rested so quietly in one harbor and one sunshine that it may have looked as if they had reached their goal and as if they had one goal. But then the almighty force of our tasks drove us apart again into different seas and sunny zones, and perhaps we shall never see one another again,—perhaps we shall meet again but fail to recognize each other: our exposure to different seas and suns has changed us! That we have to become estranged is the law above us: by the same token we should also become more venerable for each other! And thus the memory of our former friendship should become more sacred! There is probably a tremendous but invisible stellar orbit in which our very different ways and goals may be included as small parts of this path,—let us rise up to this thought! But our life is too short and our power of vision too small for us to be more than friends in the sense of this sublime possibility.— Let us then believe in our star friendship even if we should be compelled to be earth enemies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Forget anything your friends would rather you forgot.

— Michael Lipsey

Some people would rather lose the relationship than the argument.

— Michael Lipsey

Call or text a friend today and tell them you need them in your life.

— Jerry Flanagan

can miles truly separate you from friends.. if you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

— Source Unknown

life is short, but friendship lasts forever!

— Elisa Geer

I got a friend; I am my friend's friend.

— Fausto Gil

Being a good friend, means you always have a smile for them.

— Jerry Flanagan

Love is incredible but best friends are Unforgettable.

— Jvongard

The beauty of such temporary connection is the memories with which you walk away.

— Daniella Kessler

A good friend will find time on his calendar, a great friend never checks

— Jeffrey Fry

Truth is your the best friend someone can ask for. It feels like I've known you forever. You've always knew how to cheer me up when I'm down. I'll always remember the times we laughed so hard, we couldnt stop. The memories, the fun, the moments, the laughs, the jokes and all the times we got busted, I'll never forget them. I know we fought and argued sometimes but that only made our friendship stronger. As long as we are living, no matter when or where, if you ever need me just call and I'll be there because you've been there for me. Of all the friends I've ever met, you're the one I won't forget.

— Mahmoud El Hallab

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

— William Butler Yeats

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

— Peter Ustinov