Friendship Quotes & Sayings

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“A friendship that can end never really began.”
– Publilius Syrus

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”
– C. J. Langenhoven

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”
– Confucius

“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
– Charles Darwin

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
– Aristotle

“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.”
– Giotto di Bondone

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
– Benjamin Franklin