Inspirational Friendship Quotes: A Heartwarming Collection to Celebrate True Bonds

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares."

- Henri Nouwen

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"If you live to be a 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you."

- Winnie the Pooh

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you."

- Winnie the Pooh

"And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

- A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

"Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend"

- Albert Camus

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

- Thomas Aquinas

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

- William Shakespeare

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."

- John Evelyn

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have."

- Irish Proverb

"Friendship is the sweetest influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Friendship is love without wings."

- George Gordon Byron

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

- Jess C. Scott

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Khalil Gibran

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."

- Dr. Seuss

"A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have."

- Sarah Valdez

"Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation."

- Tennessee Williams

"There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met."

- Jim Henson

"A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

- Ed Cunningham

"It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

- Marlene Dietrich

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

- G. Randolf

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart."

- Helen Keller

"True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style."

- Nicole Richie

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

"Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

- Misty Copeland

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

- Proverbs 27:9

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

- Arnold H. Glasgow

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

- William Penn

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

- Len Wein

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

- Marlene Dietrich

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

- Alice Walker

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

- Toni Morrison

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

- Jean de la Fontaine

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

- Octavia E. Butler

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

- Abraham Lincoln

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."

- Henri Nouwen

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

- Jim Morrison

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Khalil Gibran

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ...""

- C.S. Lewis

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

- Bob Marley

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."

- Jane Austen

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

- A.A. Milne

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

- Henri Nouwen

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

- C.S. Lewis

"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."

- Jon Katz

"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

- Frank Crane

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."

- John Churton Collins

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer."

- Ed Cunningham

"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."

- Tennessee Williams

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"True friendship resists time, distance and silence."

- Isabel Allende

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much."

- L.M. Montgomery

"A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

- Lois Wyse

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

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

- Elisabeth Foley

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

- Tennessee Williams

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buechner

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

- Amy Poehler

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

- Audrey Hepburn

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

"Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that."

- Ally Condie

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

- Richard Burton

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

- Aristotle

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl."

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

- Thomas Jefferson

"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them."

- Candlelight Publications

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses."

- David Storey

"A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself."

- Frances Ward Weller

"Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

- Albert Camus

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

- Khalil Gibran

"Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled."

- Ally Condie

"You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common."

- Lyle Lovett

"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."

- Shel Silverstein

"A true friend is for ever a friend."

- George MacDonald

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

- Richard Bach

"True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side."

- Josh Grayson

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth…"

- George Washington

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;"

- Joseph Addison

"A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

- Lois Wyse

"My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

- George R.R. Martin

"I always say, Lorelei Lee got it wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure, and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to."

- Gina Barreca

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

- Virginia Woolf

"What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there's nothing left between you, that you've hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves."

- Colette McBeth

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

- William Butler Yeats

"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

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

- Euripides

"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

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

- Baltasar Gracian

"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend."

- King Solomon

"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

- Ulysses S. Grant

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

- Henry Van Dyke

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

- Charles Darwin

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

- Socrates

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

- John Leonard

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

- Epicurus

"If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go."

- Matthew Gray Gubler

"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."

- Toni Morrison

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."

- Anthony Robbins

"The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life."

- Chelsea Handler

"Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad."

- Mohanlal

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face."

- Maya Angelou

"Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them."

- C.G. Jung

"Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness."

- Billy Chapata

"Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you."

- Kate DiCamillo

"Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."

- Francesco Guicciardini

"Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories."

- Patrick Lindsay

"The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul."

- Shanna Rodriguez

"The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend."

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

"Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there."

- Tony Clark

"There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance."

- Dodinsky

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth."

- Robert Southey

"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

"A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation."

- John Newton

"Distance means so little, when someone means so much."

- Tom McNeal

"As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together."

- Donna Lynn Hope

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?"

- Richard Bach

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have."

- Irish Proverb

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. Fake friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere."

- Ari Joseph

"To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away."

- Sophocles

"Friendship is born at the moment when one says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’"

- C.S. Lewis

"Friend is someone to share the last cookie with."

- Cookie Monster

"If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

- Oprah

"I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."

- Jon Katz

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."

- Jennifer Aniston

"A friend knows the song in my heart and signs it to me when my memory fails."

- Donna Roberts

"We’re sisters; you’re my family. What is you, is me. There’s nothing that you could ever say to make me let go."

- Blair Waldorf

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

- Dean Koontz

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

- Jane Austen

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled."

- Ally Condie

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

- Francis Bacon

"You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common."

- Lyle Lovett

"Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold."

- Joseph Parry

"We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

- Aristotle

"True friendship resists time, distance, and silence."

- Isabel Allende

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Friendships between women, as many women will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses…swapped back and forth and over again."

- Michelle Obama

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is no time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over."

- Octavia Butler

"A good friend is a connection to life—a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

- Lois Wyse

"That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do."

- R. J. L.

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace."

- Christie Brinkley

"Don’t make friends who you are comfortable with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself."

- Heidi Wills

"Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power."

- Jane Fonda

"The truth of the matter is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone. You can choose your family."

- Jennifer Lopez

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

- Ice Cube

"Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

- Eugene Kennedy

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

- Thomas Fuller

"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about."

- Mindy Kaling

"Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

"Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them."

- Anna Taylor

"I can’t believe I’ve known you for 20 years and you’re still my favorite person to talk to."

- Jess Day

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together, and that was enough."

- Stephen Chbosky

"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em."

- Shel Silverstein

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."

- Winnie the Pooh

"The most important discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

- Elisabeth Foley

"I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, 'Hey, you can do this,' put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!"

- Reese Witherspoon

"I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way."

- Emma Watson

"Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend."

- Sarah Dessen

"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is."

- Mindy Kaling

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

- Walt Whitman

"Friendship is a sheltering tree;"

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

- Confucius

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

- George Washington

"It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds."

- Gina Barreca

"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."

- Margaret Walker

"Remember that life's most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart."

- Kristin Hannah

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

"Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."

- William Shakespeare

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

- Elbert Hubbard

"If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky."

- S.E. Hinton

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

- Bernard Meltzer

"A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out."

- Shannon I. Adler

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

- Donna Roberts

"Friendship is a wildly underrated medication."

- Anna Deavere Smith

"My friends are my estate."

- Emily Dickinson

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

"Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected."

- C.J. Langenhoven

"There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy."

- Henry Ford

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

- George Washington

"Friendship is the wine of life."

- Edward Young

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

- Ben Jonson

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."

- Walter Winchell

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."

- Charles Lamb

"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together."

- Nicholas Sparks

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

- Plutarch

"Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love."

- Mandy Hale

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

- Linda Grayson

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget."

- G. Randolf

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

- William Blake

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing."

- E.B. White

"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands."

- Maria Shriver

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."

- Katherine Mansfield

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."

- Gillian Anderson

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish proverb

"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

- A.A. Milne

"Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it."

- Sarah Addison Allen

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

- John D. Rockefeller

"You know what sucks about getting older? Your friends have known you for way too long. They’ve got too much on you."

- Nick Miller

"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

- Sylvia Plath

"She’s my friend because we both know what it’s like to have people be jealous of us."

- Cher

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."

- Emily Dickinson

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

- Chanakya

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."

- Josh Billings

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."

- Haruki Murakami

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."

"True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems."

"Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in.’"

"When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there."

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say."

"A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part."

"A best friend us someone who makes you laugh even when you think you'll never smile again."

- Unknown

"Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better."

"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there."

"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."

"Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust."

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."

"One good friendship will outlive forty average loves."

"To friendship every burden's light."

"No friendship is an accident."

"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden."

"True friends are always together in spirit."

"True friends are great riches."

"There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met."

"Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better."

"We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart."

"Life was meant for good friends and great adventures."

"A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile."

"Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them."

"You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you."

"It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters."

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

"Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine."

"Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital."

"Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need."

"A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again."

"Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there."

- Unknown

"A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart."

"God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters."

"In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips."

"I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness."

"It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does."

"Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food."

"We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much."

"A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part."

"True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically."

"It’s hard to find a friend who’s cute, loving, generous, caring, and smart. My advice to y’all is, don’t lose me."

"We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home."

"Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go."

"Friendship is so weird…you just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like ‘Yep, I like this one’ and you just do stuff with them."

"I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends."