Life is all fun and frolic when friends are around. And when they are not, you can send them lovely quotes and tell them how special they are for you. Cherish and nurture this bond with our large collection of quotes about friendship. Send the quotes to your loved ones and let them know how much you dote on them.
"Take my hand, and hold on tight, don't let go, don't you dare even try, there are so many roads to travel, so much still to find, and with the help of our lord, I want you to help me try and reach for the sky."
-Marty Keith
I did try to come back and listen
You never it..I didn't wish it
But I did hear every answer every question
It's all about protection
still through the sunlight days I wait
Track a ghost through the fog
The sun is burning me
And you come running out in the wind with me
The ocean is your blanket..."
-Stevie Nicks
"Every now and then we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time you fall, you're the best friend that I've found."
-Jordan Hill - "Remember Me This Way"
"And I will take you In my arms.. And hold you right where you belong. 'Till the day my life is through.. This I Promise You."
- "This I Promise You" –Nsync
"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
- Jacques Delille
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
- George Washington
“We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.”
Jeanette Winterson
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other."
-lucian de crescenzo
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
~ Bible: Ecclesiastes
"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
-Richard Bach
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
- Richard Bach
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
- Bernard Meltzer
"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
-William Shakespeare
“It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. “
- Mary Dixon Thayer
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. “
-Albert Schweitzer
“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject;
with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely.
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to
weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and
grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping,
and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. “
-Dinah Craik
“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. “
-Diana Cortes
“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. “
-Blaise Pascal
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces “.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. “
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly? ”
-Emily Brontë
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.”
-Pam Brown
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. “
-Charles Alexander Eastman
“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”
-Samuel Pepys
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. “
- Flavia Weedn
“Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. “
- Claude Mermet
