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Quotes About Friendship

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.
~ Arabella Weir
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
~ Nora Ephron
Gratitude is the heart of Friendship.
~ Louann Brizendine
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.
~ H. L. Mencken
Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it's a universal need.
~ Susan W. Tanner
The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.
~ Julian Barnes
A real friend ... exults in his friendÂ's happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
~ Herodotus
You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.
~ Unknown
Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.
~ Susan Powter
Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.
~ Rebecca Wells
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
~ Francis Bacon
I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.
~ Doug Sahm
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.
~ Anna Quindlen
Best friends are people you know you don't need to talk to every single day. You don't even need to talk to each other for weeks, but when you do, it's like you never stopped talking.
~ Unknown
Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
~ Marcel Proust
If you have a solid friendship before dating, there's this understanding that you can be just youBut you should still have fun hooking up!
~ Tyler Blackburn
Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.
~ Unknown
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
~ Francis Bacon
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
~ Sophocles
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
~ Anais Nin
Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
~ Norm MacDonald
You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
~ Emily Dickinson