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Quotes About Friendship

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
~ Aristotle
I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.
~ Khushwant Singh
I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.
~ Joan Cusack
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
~ William Hazlitt
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
~ Plautus
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.
~ Steven Tyler
Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
~ A. A. Milne
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
~ John Newton
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
~ Francis Bacon
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
~ Thomas Fuller
Your friend will argue with you.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
~ H. M. Tomlinson
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.
~ Unknown
The greatest medicine is a true friend.
~ William Temple
A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
~ Julian Casablancas
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
~ E. W. Howe
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
~ Edmund Burke
Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?
~ Unknown
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
~ Publilius Syrus
It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.
~ Emily Blackwell