Friendship - Quotes and Proverbs

A collection of quotes and proverbs about friendship.

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A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.

After problems, friendships can be fixed, but will never be as strong as before.

A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Someone who helps when you are in trouble is your real friend.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Donna Roberts

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Someone who is a friend to everyone makes none of them feel special.

A friend's eye is a good mirror.

A real friend will tell you the truth about yourself.

A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Aragorn

A smile relieves a heart that grieves.

The Rolling Stones
Source: Waiting on a Friend Lyrics

A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.

A stupid friend is a greater plague than a wise enemy.

A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.

An empty purse frightens away friends.

If you get poor, your 'friends' will disappear.

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

But, but that's what a friend is, Bert. I mean, not minding too much because you like somebody. That's a friend, Bert, a pal! Not minding! That's what friends are for!

Ernie
Source: From the song: That's What Friends Are For

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Thomas S. Monson

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

False friends are worse than open enemies.

Friends are flowers that never fade.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

Friendship is love with understanding.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.

Francis Bacon

I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.

Rabindranath Tagore

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Bilbo

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Mark Twain

If you see a friend without a smile, give him one of yours.

If you want a friend, be a friend.

Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

John Lennon

In times of prosperity friends are plentiful.

You have many friends when you have no difficulties, but if you are in trouble your 'friends' may disappear.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Kindness begets kindness.

If you are nice to people, they will be nice to you.

Make a friend of the wolf, but keep your axe ready.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Joseph Joubert

Only real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Only a real friend will tell you the truth about yourself.

Peel a fig for your friend, a peach for your enemy.

Pick your friends like you pick your fruit.

Real friends will share even a strawberry.

Save me from my friends.

Friends can sometimes cause more problems than enemies.

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

Christie Brinkley

Short reckonings make long friends.

Pay debts quickly to ensure long friendship.

The ambitious one makes friends with the elephant, then tramples upon the ant.

The best things in life are not things.

John Ruskin

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Pink Floyd
Source: High Hopes Lyrics

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen
Source: Northanger Abbey

True friends are tested in adversity.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

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