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Friend Quotes
I hope you enjoy this extensive collection of friend quotes broken down categories, such as best friends, old friends, sentimental, insightful, how to be a good friend, and much more. Let your friends know how much you love and appreciate them! "A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart." 
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Friend Quotes Index
About Friends
"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. "Friendship is a sheltering tree." "Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." "The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." "Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears." "A friend is a gift you give yourself." "I find friendship to be like wine, "Friends have all things in common." "Friends are born, not made." "Friendship is a special kind of love." "Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious things." "Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." "Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again."
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
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Appreciate Your Friends"Our friendship is a treasure I value each and every day. I give thanks and count my blessings for friends like you." "Look around you and appreciate those who care about you, be thankful they are in your life." "Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
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Beautiful"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart." 
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"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life." ~ Dior Yamasaki "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
"Friendship is the golden ribbon that ties the world together." "Friendship is love without his wings"
"Friends are kisses blown to us by angels". "We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse." "Friends are relatives you make for yourself." "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other."
"Friends are the Angels that help you fly." "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with friendship." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Benefits of Friends"A good friend is a connection to life "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Best Friend"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Bible Verses'A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.'
'A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.'
"An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship." "Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy." "As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend." "9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends." Return to Index of Friend Quotes
Death of a Friend"Friends are friends forever, "With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
"Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world." Return to Index of Friend Quotes False Friends"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." "The friendship that can cease has never been real." "False friends aren't always that bad because it shows you about yourself and teaches you to be strong and life goes on." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Friends and Lovers"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship." "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
"Love is friendship on fire." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Friends Separated by Distance"No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of each other's worth." "There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound." "Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Girl Scout Mottos on Friends"Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold." "Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold." "Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Good Advice"Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most." "The best time to make friends is before you need them." "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." "Do not save your loving speeches "Friends aren't jumper cables, you don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies." "Friends are the roses of life: pick them carefully and avoid the thorns." "Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." "I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody." Return to Index of Friend Quotes "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." "Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them." "Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends." "Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; "If we discovered that we had only 5 minutes left to say what we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them." "It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie." "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." Return to Index of Friend Quotes
How to be a Good Friend"If 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." "If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me." "The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job."
Return to Index of Friend Quotes Humorous"A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked." "Friends are like bras...they give lots of support." "Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family." "Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
"Friendship is like thighs, they are always sticking together." "Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good a hundred you must try." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Importance of Friends"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." "I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends." "No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence." "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters." "There is no hope of joy except in human relations." "Material things can't make the soul whole. The only the love, trust, and loyalty of friends can do that." "Love doesn't make the world go round, it makes the ride worthwhile." "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend." "A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." "The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day."
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Insightful"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." "One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter." "There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart." "When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance." "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose." "The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" "When the silences are no longer awkward, you know you are around friends." "Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..." "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
"... no man is useless
while he has a friend."
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." Return to Index of Friend Quotes
Inspirational"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival." "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own." "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." "If you have more than one friend, you have more than your share!" "A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!" Return to Index of Friend Quotes
Keys to Friendship"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end." "Friendship is not friendship without trust, without it I walk alone." "The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear."
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Lyrics about Friends"I get by with a little help from my friends." Return to Index of Friend Quotes Maintaining a Friendship"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away." "You my friend, I will defend. And if we change, we'll love you anyway." "Keep your friendships in repair."
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path." Return to Index of Friend Quotes
Making Friends"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
Return to Index of Friend Quotes Movie/TV"You only meet your once in a lifetime friend... once in a lifetime." "You just reminded me of what's really important in life, friends, best friends." "You are you and I am I,
You do your thing and I'll do mine,
and if in the end we meet up together,
it is beautiful." Return to Index of Friend Quotes New Friends"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon."
Return to Index of Friend Quotes Old Friends"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." "I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way." "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"Ah, how good it feels...the hand of an old friend"
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Profound"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
"In my friend, I find a second self." " Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. "
"Friends are like your second family only closer." Return to Index of Friend Quotes
Proverb"The best antiques are old friends." "Remember that every good friend was once a stranger." "Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." "Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most." "Hold a true friend with both your hands." "Books and friends should be few but good." "One who looks for a friend without faults will have none."
"A friend in need is a friend indeed."
"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."
"The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb."
"Life without a friend is like death without a witness."
"May there always be work for your hands to do, "A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."
"It is better to be in chains with friends , than to be in a garden with strangers." Return to Index of Friend Quotes
Qualities of Good Friends"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." "Friends are those who nourish the spirit."
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."
Return to Index of Friend Quotes Secret to Friendship"The secret to friendship is being a good listener." "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life." "A reassuring presence, A LIGHT when times are dark, A hand reaching out, Is what friendship is about." "I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
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Sentimental"We always thought we'd look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we'd look back on our laughter and cry." "Every time you cross my mind, I think how lucky I've been, to have you as my special friend." "Friends are like money in the bank, longer you keep them, the more they are worth."
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True Friends"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." "Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter." "A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets." "A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life." "The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." Return to Index of Friend Quotes "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad." "A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age." "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." "A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart." "True friends are the people who brighten your smile every time your with them" "A true friend is someone who will know your name in heaven" Return to Index of Friend Quotes
Value of Friends"Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless." "My friends are my estate."
"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow." "No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." "A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
"A cheerful friend is like a sunny day spreading brightness all around."
"Gift of Frienship is Priceless, Especially When It Comes From YOU." Return to Index of Friend Quotes
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