Friendship Quotes

Good friends are hard to find and worth holding onto. These quotes celebrate the people who show up, tell you the truth, and stick around when things get difficult — the chosen family that makes life richer.

“The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.”

E. W. Howe

More Friendship Quotes

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”

Walt Whitman

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

William Blake

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

Euripides

“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”

Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”

Baltasar Gracian

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.”

Baltasar Gracian

“I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.”

Harvey Weinstein

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

George Washington

“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.”

William Glasser

“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”

Charles Caleb Colton

“Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”

Stendhal

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Anais Nin

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

Oscar Wilde

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