Friendship Quotes

“Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.”

— Mortimer Adler

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

— Harvey Weinstein

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

— William Butler Yeats

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

— Marcel Proust

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

— Laurence J. Peter

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”

— Samuel Johnson

“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 needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

— Joseph Addison

“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

— Muhammad Ali

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”

— Tahar Ben Jelloun