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Quotes About Friendship

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
~ Pema Chodron
Friends buy you lunch. Best friends eat your lunch.
~ Unknown
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
~ Merle Shain
Friendship first, competition second.
~ Yao Ming
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
~ Muhammad Ali
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
~ George Harrison
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
~ Victor Hugo
Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.
~ Nicky Gumbel
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
~ Mother Teresa
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
~ Samuel Beckett, Proust
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
~ Kayla Mueller
A road to a friend's house is never long.
~ Ann Richards
Everybody needs one essential friend.
~ William Glasser
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
~ C. S. Lewis
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
~ Madeleine de Scudery
Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
~ Robert E. Lee
If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.
~ Wilmer Valderrama
It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
~ A. A. Milne
A fav'rite has no friend!
~ Thomas Gray
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
~ David Brooks
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
~ Voltaire
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
~ Walter Scott