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Quotes About Friendship

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.
~ Sarah McLachlan
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
~ Theophile Gautier
The bond between America and Japan and the friendship between our two peoples runs very, very deep.
~ Donald Trump
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
~ Bertrand Russell
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
~ Saib Tabrizi
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
~ Anatole Broyard
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
~ Charles Dickens
A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.
~ Unknown
That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.
~ Ilana Glazer
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
~ John Lyly
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
~ Khalil Gibran
Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.
~ Unknown
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
~ Horace Walpole
I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.
~ Unknown
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
~ Richard Attias
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
~ Adam Sandler
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
~ Milan Kundera, Encounter