Friendship Quotes

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

~ Lisa Alther

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

~ Mariama Bâ

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

~ Edna Buchanan

Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

~ Mark Twain

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

~ Katharine Butler Hathaway

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

~ Sheryl Condie

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

~ Marlene Dietrich

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

~ George Eliot

Prosperity is not just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

~ Plutarch

Damn this human who had come into her life and made himself so important to her, had made coming to terms with her inner monster that much more difficult to bear.

~ Samantha Young

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with, he was my imaginary friend.

~ Shawn Lukas

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with. He was my imaginary friend.

~ Shawn Lukas

I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, all about us insisted on our membership. And instead of a handshake or a mystical password as entrance into this spurious society, we agreed instead to share a lie, the one that says we’re safe, secure, and fulfilled living this way.

~ Christina Carson

If you’re so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.

~ Michelle N. Onuorah

Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.

~ Patricia Gaffney

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

~ Jennie Churchill

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.

~ Rivera Sun

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

~ John D. Rockefeller

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

~ Ray Bradbury

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

All lasting business is built on friendship.

~ Alfred A. Montapert

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

~ Jane Austen

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

~ Julie Burchill

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

~ Regina Brett

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

~ Tim Allen

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

~ Anton Chekhov

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

~ Thiruvalluvar

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

~ Jena Malone

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

~ Jeff Ross

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

~ Emma Bunton

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

~ Vicente Fox

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

~ Salman Rushdie

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

~ Stefanie Powers

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

~ Atifete Jahjaga

'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

~ Zendaya

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

~ Barack Obama

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

~ Euripides

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

~ Ann Landers

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

~ Orson Welles

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

~ Saint Basil