Friends Quotes

When I met Millie, she was a hugger. She hugged over everything. I didn’t. We came to an agreement that hugs are reserved for prolonged partings and death. That’s it. At least, I thought that was our agreement. It seems like she’s figured out how to steal hugs more frequently. Millie’s turned into a hit and run hugger.

~ H.m. Ward

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable.

~ C.m. Stunich

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

~ Neil Gaiman

I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

~ Oscar Wilde

Lord, thank you for the people who care more about me than about their schedules.

~ Shirley Corder

The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or the hush of people reading that made the three siblings feel so good as they walked into the room. It is useless for me to tell you all about the brass lamps in the shapes of different fish, or the bright blue curtains that rippled like water as a breeze came in from the window, because although these were wonderful things they were no what made the three children smile. The Quagmire triplets were smiling, too, and although I have not researched the Quagmires nearly as much as I have the Baudelaires, I can say with reasonable accuracy that they were smiling for the same reason.

~ Lemony Snicket

He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him.

~ Louis Sachar

It's harder to hate someone when they like the same ice cream as you.

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky

He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him.

~ Martha Mckiever

Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

And friends abroad must bear in mindFriends at home they leave behind.Oh, I shall be stiff and coldWhen I forget you, hearts of gold;The land where I shall mind you notIs the land where all's forgot.And if my foot returns no moreTo Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,Luck, my lads, be with you stillBy falling stream and standing hill,By chiming tower and whispering tree,Men that made a man of me.About your work in town and farmStill you'll keep my head from harm,Still you'll help me, hands that gaveA grasp to friend me to the grave.

~ A.e. Housman

Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having 'a sweep', do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of 'Step in Time'. Laughter is the inappropriate response to your friend's news.

~ Hadley Freeman

Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not be appreciated. “Mrs. Kaspar” sounded too like a phone solicitor, which would not do after having kissed the circumference of her son's neck.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

~ Ann Landers

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

~ Karen Kingsbury

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You know, just sit in the corner and glare at him the whole time. See if he crumbles.” “I’ve seen your hard-ass face, Tuck,” Charlie said. “Mostly, you just look constipated. Ford, you’d better do the glaring.

~ Julie James

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

~ John O'callaghan

I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex.

~ R.j. Anderson

All the faces on the photographs have changed,To not confuse it all, the names remain the same

~ Antimatter

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..

~ W.

Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it’s not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” (127)

~ Jenni Schaefer

You like him, Rose. Why don't you just admit that, at least to me?

~ Louise Rozett

Middle school is kind of like Middle-earth. It’s a magical journey filled with elves, dwarves, hobbits, queens, kings, and a few corrupt wizards. Word to the wise: pick your traveling companions well. Ones with the courage and moral fiber to persevere. Ones who wield their lip gloss like magic wands when confronted with danger. This way, when you pass through the congested hallways rife with pernicious diversion, you achieve your desired destination—or at least your next class.-CeCee, Lucy and CeCee's How to Survive (and Thrive) in Middle School

~ Kimberly Dana

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

~ Acharya Mahapragya

She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.

~ Ellen Gilchrist

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

~ Alfred Tennyson

By surrounding yourself with people who are positive, caring, intelligent, loving, and open-minded, you create a personal environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. By surrounding yourself with the opposite, you create a personal environment that is conducive to the opposite. Choose accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won't forget that.

~ Patrick Carman

I continued to move my fingers across his skin exactly as I had before, but I needed to make a decision. I had reached for him, but I could back out of it by trailing my fingers down his arm and settling my hand in his, like I wanted us to be friends.I didn't want us to be friends.Ever so slowly, I slid my hand up his sleeve, across his shoulder, and up his neck to cradle his jaw, prickly with stubble.

~ Jennifer Echols

Don’t be too nice to him,” I teased. “He’ll never leave.

~ Juliet Blackwell

With Weasel and Arisa at his side, anything was possible. Anything.

~ Hilari Bell

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

~ Tahir Shah

His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

~ J. Christopher Herold

Jimmy was in a league of his own when it came to puerile, half-pissed badinage.

~ Jamie Holoran

Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.

~ Markus Zusak

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

~ Lauren Conrad