Friendship Quotes

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~ Grace Pulpit

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.  ~ Arnold H. Glasgow

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.~ Spanish Proverb

As mills require two stones, so friendship requires two heads.~ Armenian Proverb

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.  ~ Leo Buscaglia

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.  ~Arnold Glasow

Better to lose a little money than a little friendship.~ Malagasy Proverb

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.~ Traditional Proverb

Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.~ Chinese Proverb

Don’t allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.~ American Proverb

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.~ Indian Proverb

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.  ~ Author Unknown

Friendship does not need pepper to cry.~ Congolese Proverb

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.~ Egyptian Proverb

Friendship is a furrow in the sand.~ Tongan Proverb

Friendship is a plant we must often water.~ German Proverb

Friendship is honey — but don’t eat it all.~ Moroccan Proverb

Friendship is love with intelligence.~ German Proverb

Friendship is love without wings.~ French Proverb

Friendship is not born of words alone.~ Armenian Proverb

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

Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.  ~ Author Unknown

Friendship lasts but for a day, business connections forever.~ Babylonian Proverb

Hatred watches while friendship sleeps.~ French Proverb

Hedges between keep friendships green.~ Traditional Proverb

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.  ~Edgar Watson Howe

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.  ~ Samuel Johnson

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.  ~ Adabella Radici

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~ William Blake

Justice knows no friendship.~ Estonian Proverb

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.~ Traditional Proverb

Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun.~ Japanese Proverb

May your friendship not be like a stone: if it breaks you cannot put the pieces together. May it be like iron: when it breaks, you can weld the pieces back together.~ Malagasy Proverb

Mutual gifts cement friendship.~ Ivorian Proverb

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

Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love.~ French Proverb

So long as the pot is boiling, friendship will stay warm.~ Arabian Proverb

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  ~ Virginia Woolf

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.  ~Aristotle

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.  ~ Elbert Hubbard

The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush — soon gone.~ French Proverb

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~ Author Unknown

The more intimate the friendship the deadlier the enmity.~ African Proverb

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.  ~Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~ Elisabeth Foley

There are no old friendships in business.~ Ukranian Proverb

To offer friendship to one who is looking for love, is like giving bread to someone dying of thirst. ~ Spanish Proverb

To preserve friendship, one must build walls.~ Italian Proverb

True friendship does not freeze in the winter.~ German Proverb

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  ~ Dave Tyson Gentry

Warm food, warm friendships.~ Czech Proverb

Your friendship is your needs answered.~ Danish Proverb

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