Quotes About Friendship

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

A friend is known when needed.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand... but touches your heart.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Let your best be for your friend...

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.