Friendship Quotes for Letters & Cards

“Side by side or miles apart, real friends are always close to the heart.”

— Unknown

“Life is nothing without friendship.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Aristotle

“It is not what we have, but who we have in our lives that matters.”

— Unknown

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

— John Evelyn

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

— Jane Austen

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

— Epicurus

“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

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

— A. A. Milne

“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. Glasow

“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.”

— Virginia Woolf

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

— Doug Larson

“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.”

— Waqar Ahmed

“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

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

— Socrates

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Arnold H. Glasow

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

— Thomas Aquinas

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

— Unknown

“Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.”

— N. R. Hart

“The best mirror is an old friend.”

— George Herbert

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

— Elie Wiesel

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Helen Keller

“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Elbert Hubbard

“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

— Unknown

“A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

— Unknown

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“True friends stab you in the front.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”

— Aristotle

“We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh? asked Piglet. Even longer, Pooh answered.”

— A. A. Milne

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Linda Grayson

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

“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

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Epicurus

“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

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

— Jim Henson

“Friends are the family you choose.”

— Jess C. Scott

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

— Seneca

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Jim Morrison

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

— Alice Walker

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

— Euripides

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Tennessee Williams

“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”

— Henry van Dyke

“Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's good just knowing they are there.”

— Unknown

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Aristotle

“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”

— Unknown

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

— Irish Proverb

“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

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Marlene Dietrich

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Helen Keller

“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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

“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

“True friendship comes when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.”

— Unknown

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

— Unknown

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“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

“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met.”

— William Butler Yeats

“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

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your friend is your needs answered.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“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

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Walter Winchell

“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

“True friends are like diamonds, bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”

— Nicole Richie

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

— Seneca

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Oprah Winfrey

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”

— Saint Jerome

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

— Euripides

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

— Mark Twain

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

— David Tyson

“Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.”

— Henry Drummond

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

— Ed Cunningham