Top 10 lists -» Friendship Quotes

"You and I are more than friends. We're like a really small gang."

– Unknown

"True friends don't judge each other. They judge other people together."

– Emilie Saint-Genis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: 'What! You too? I thought it was just me.'"

– C.S. Lewis

"Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice."

– Otto von Bismark

"It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not."

– Mignon McLaughlin

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

– Jenna Evans (Welch, Love & Luck)

"A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body."

– Jim Jayes

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kind smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Linda Grayson

"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'damn, that was fun'."

– Groucho Marx

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

– Matthew Gray Gubler

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with."

– Robert Brault

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

– Charles Lamb

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

– Sylvia Plath

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."

– Helen Keller

"I don't like to commit myself to heaven and hell — you see, I have friends in both places."

– Mark Twain

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

– Helen Keller

"Friendship is love without its wings."

– Lord Byron

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

– Chelsea Handler

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

– Elie Wiesel

"It's hard to love someone who loves someone else. You have to ignore the pain and swallow your pride just to be a friend. But somehow in the end, it's all worth it, because friendship lasts longer than love."

– Unknown

"Minimum love is friendship. Maximum friendship is love."

– Sydney Rogers

"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

"Friendship or love... It's really hard to choose, though sometimes friendship ends in love. If romance ends, it's hard to return to friendship."

– Unknown

"Love is friendship set on fire."

– Jeremy Taylor

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."

– Anurag Prakash Ray

"One of the hardest things in life is figuring out the difference between friendship and love."

– Unknown

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

– Bruce Lee

"Friendship is a house that is built on and sustained by love."

– Joshua Aaron Guillory

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship — never."

– Unknown

"A friendship that is like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady."

– Thomas Moore

"Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love."

– William Shakespeare

"Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving."

– Varsha Sharma

"Between men and women, there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

– Oscar Wilde

"Closure happens right after you accept that letting go is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been."

– Sylvester McNutt

"Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone's friend, instead of saying goodbye forever."

– Shannon L. Adler

"Friends ask you questions; enemies question you."

– Criss Jami, Healology

"True friendship never questions what it costs you."

– Stephen Richards

"It hurts because it mattered."

– John Green

"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

"Friendships change as the parties age, but the story doesn't have to be over as the book of life turns another page."

– Unknown

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

– William Blake

"Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings in that closeness ends."

– Tobias Wolff

"If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault."

– Oprah Winfrey

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

– Unknown

"Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation."

– Sean Covey

"Whenever you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it... it's your attitude."

– Simi Ngr

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

– Martin Luther King Jr.

"Do yourself a favor and learn how to walk away... there are tons more waiting to love you better. Do better."

– Reyna Biddy

"Making new friends shouldn't mean losing old ones."

– Unknown