Favorite Friendship Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
– Doug Larson 

“When 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.”
– E. W. Howe 

“Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.”
– E. W. Howe 

“Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
– Elbert Hubbard 

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

“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt 

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
– Emil Ludwig 

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus 

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore 

“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 

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides 

“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”
– Euripides 

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
– Francesco Guicciardini 

“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”
– Francis Quarles 

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche 

“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche 

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

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”
– George Jean Nathan 

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”
– George MacDonald 

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana 

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
– George Washington 

“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 

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

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller 

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
– Helen Keller 

“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.”
– Henri Nouwen 

“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 

“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau 

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