Quotes About Friendship

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

A best friend isn't just someone who's always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets.

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

Our friendship is stronger than most people because we talk and breathe in the same room and we eat and sleep in the same place

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.