“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
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.
“A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.”
“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
“I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.”
“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”
“Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.”
“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”
“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”