250+ Memorable Short Quotes About Friendship

A bad friend secretly plots your downfall. – Bangambiki Habyarimana

A book is a dear friend who has a thousand things to say. – Nicole Sager

A crow will always cry at the carcass of a friend. ― Anthony T.Hincks

A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity. – Rachel Hamilton

A friend can give you the freedom to think differently. – Debasish Mridha M.D.

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. – Frances Ward Weller

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it top me when my memory fails. – Unknown

A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Adams

A friend is a favorable family. – Lailah Gifty Akita

A friend is a gift you give yourself. – Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a person whom you can love without judging and share your thoughts without fearing. – Debasish Mridha MD

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. – Simon Sinek

A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly. – Debasish Mridha MD

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 one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison

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

A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself. – Heidi Wills

A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times. – Lailah Gifty Akita

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit; an enemy is the wind that blows it out. – Anthony Liccione
A friend is what the heart needs all the time. – Henry Van Dyke

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend to all is a friend to none. – Aristotle

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime. – Haruki Murakami

A friend who betrays you is an enemy. – Gift Gugu Mona

A friend’s bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent’s tooth. – Mehmet Murat ildan

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

A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A gloomy face drives friends away. – Bangambiki Habyarimana

A good book is a true friend who never betrays. – Debasish Mridha

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. – Arthur Brisbane

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

A good friend is a healing friend. – A.D. Posey

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

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing. – John Tillotson

A lonely soul is the best friend of itself. – Munia Khan

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

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves. – Elizabeth George

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

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

A soul mate is a direct pathway to God. – Kamand Kojouri

A stranger is just a friend waiting to be let in. – Anthony T Hincks

A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days. – Debasish Mridha

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! – Doug Larson
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. – Len Wein

A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it. – Vinita Kinra

A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face. – Unknown

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 true friend makes your problem their problem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

A true friend pays attention without seeking it. – Debasish Mridha MD

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It’s too dangerous. – Aravind Adiga

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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. – Buddha

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. – Misty Copeland

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

Be the type of friend you would like to have. – Steve Maraboli

Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life. – Nathanael Richmond

Beware of unfriendly friends who come nicely dressed in friendly suits. – Edmond Mbiaka

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. – Robert Brault

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. – Dorothy Parker

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. – John Lennon

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. – Rabindranath Tagore

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? – Abraham Lincoln

Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person but, help your friend to become a perfect person that’s true friendship. – Mother Teresa

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

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

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

Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. – Jacques Delille

Former best friends make the worst enemies. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Friend is the one who shows the way and walks a piece of road with us. – William Wordsworth

Friends are born, not made. – Henry Adams

Friends are like walls, sometimes you lean on them and sometimes it’s good just knowing they’re there. – Unknown

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul. – Steve Maraboli

Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life. – Unknown

Friends are the family you choose. – Jess C. Scott

Friends are the siblings God never gave us. – Mencius

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

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you. – Criss Jami

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

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

Friends will always be there for the party. Real friends will be there after the party… – Bray Love

Friends, though absent, are still present. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

Friendship and money: oil and water. – Mario Puzo

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. – Alexander Dumas

Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions. – Stephen Richards

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero. – Amit Ray

Friendship humanizes. – Jason Gay

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Friendship is a special kind of love. More than endless, more than true. When friends parted ways no matter the distance, expect them to keep coming back to you. – John K.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. – Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. – Anna Deavere Smith

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm. – Augustine Birrell

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibran

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it. – Kathleen Norris

Friendship is as great as a True Friend and a True Friend is as great as Friendship. – Sharvani Akula

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one. – C.S. Lewis

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks. – Waqar Ahmed

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. – Charles Kingsley

Friendship is like wine: it gets better as it grow older. Just like us… I get better, you get older. – Unknown

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. – Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace. – Buddha

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. – Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas

Friendship isn’t about becoming somebody else perfect person. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be. – John

Friendship lasts long when the terms are clear! – Ritu Raj

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. – Cicero

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn’t worth the name. – Mahatma Gandhi

Friendships are discovered rather than made. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Good friends are like angels. You don’t have to see them to know they are there for you. – Moywaywa

Good friends are like stars: You don’t always see them but you know they are there. – Unknown

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. – Criss Jami

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

Hell will be Heaven with Friends; Heaven will be Hell without them. – Aman Jassal

I have learned that friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who came and never left your side. – Yolanda Hadid

If you fulfill God’s will, then God will always be your friend. – Sunday Adelaja

If you have no friends, invent one! – Stephen Richards

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you are rich. – Buddha

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you’re rich. – Michelle Kwan

If you have one true friend you have more than your share. – Thomas Fuller

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

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

If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend! – Elizabeth George

In friendship, we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos. – Emery Lord

In life have a friend that’s like a mirror and shadow; Mirror doesn’t lie and shadow never leaves. – Unknown

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. – Collins John Churton

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips. – Unknown

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend. – George Clason

It is during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you. – Unknown

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

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

It’s really a rare thing to have a friend that changes your mind. – Jill Telford

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

Laugh, and the world longs to be your friend. – Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed. – James Hauenstein

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. – Sarah Desse

Life is nothing without friendship. – Cicero

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. – Tennessee Williams

Life says Loneliness Is Friendly Enemy. – Shivangi lavaniya

Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring. – Celia Brayfield

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

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lovers have a right to betray you. Friends don’t. – Judy Holliday

Make time for your friends. The work will always be there, but your friends may not. – Unknown

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. – Aristotle

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford

My friends are my estate. – Emily Dickinson

Never be in a hurry to condemn a friend; never be in haste to embrace an enemy. – Paul Bamikole

Never hate an enemy; love them and transform them into a friend. – Debasish Mridha

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

No friendship is an accident. – O. Henry

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend. – Colin Higgins

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens

No words would ever be more powerful than the presence of a friend. – Rachel L. Schade

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. – Plautus

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. – Jean de La Fontaine

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. – Herodotus

Old friends are gold. New friends are diamonds. If you get diamonds, don’t forget gold because only gold can hold a diamond. – Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library. – Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

One friend in a life time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Adams

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends. – Oscar Wilde

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. – Euripides

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. – Clifton Fadiman

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. – Richelle Mead

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. – Amos Bronson Alcott

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand. – Robert Brault

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. – Joseph F. Newton Men

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. – Lois L. Kaufman

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de La Fontaine

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Seeing a friend cry is not as painful as hearing an enemy laugh. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Silence is a prince’s friend. – George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends. – Virginia Woolf

Someone helping you is not always your friend and someone opposing you always is not your enemy. – Unknown

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less. – Crystal Woods

The actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday. – Richelle E. Goodrich

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

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around. – Renee Olstead

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. – William Blake

The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend. – Ellen J. Barrier

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. – Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. – Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. – Joseph Addison

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment is a secret which but few discover. – Joseph Addison

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. – Sophie Swetchine

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

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

The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend. – Bianca Scardoni

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

The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness. – Debasish Mridha

The most reliable friend you have is your shadow. – Matshona Dhliwayo

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend. – Stephen Richards

The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The word friend is common, the fact is rare. – Plato

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. – William Hazlitt

There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met. – William Butler Yeats

There cannot be friendship without equality. – Swami Sivananda

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

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. – Jane Austen

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas

There’s no tonic like an old friend. – Stephen King

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. – Bill Watterson

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike. – Joe Abercrombie

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. – Charlie Chaplin

To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers. – Israelmore Ayivor

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Brandi Snyder

Today’s enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today’s friends can be tomorrow’s enemies. – Suzy Kassem

Trees are always there as a friend to talk and help you. – Debasish Mridha MD

True friends are always together in spirit. – L.M. Montgomery

True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, and valuable and always in style. – Nicole Richie

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

True friends chop the onions and cry together. – Ljupka Cvetanova

True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together. – Emilie Saint-Genis

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future; false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past. – Seth Brown

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. – Henry David Thoreau

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

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. – Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship never questions what it costs you. – Stephen Richards

True friendships are eternal. – Cicero

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. – Oscar Wilde

Unless we learn to criticize friends, we shall never find true ones. – Tarif Naaz

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

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

We are some people’s friends only when they are with us. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human. – Stephen Richards

When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way. – Toba Beta

When you’re alone is when you can count your friends. – Stephen Richards

Where there are friends, there is wealth. – Titus Maccius Plautus

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. – Chris Bradford

Wind also needs wind because everything and everybody needs a friend like himself! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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

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

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi

You will know a friendship is not natural when you don’t feel relaxed with. – Bangambiki Habyarimana

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. – Tim Fargo

Your life is going to be influenced by friends you mingle with. – Israelmore Ayivor

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