Friendship Quotes

“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.”

“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.”

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

“I ask of life only that which makes it worth living: the love of friends.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.”

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

“It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.”

“They seem so fumbling and foolish — the words of consolation we offer to a friend. But one day it becomes our turn to hear them, and how consoling to us those words become and how cherished the friend who stands there, fumbling for them.”

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

“Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.”