Friendship: Friendship Quotes

Celebrate the bonds that make life brighter with a curated selection of friendship quotes. From quiet gestures of support to shared laughter and lifelong loyalty, these lines capture the warmth, trust, and acceptance found in true companionship. Browse uplifting, witty, and heartfelt sayings from classic and contemporary voices. Whether you are honoring a best friend, finding words for a thank-you note, or searching for a caption, these quotes offer simple inspiration for everyday moments and special milestones.

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Lord Byron, Poet

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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

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"Friends are the siblings God never gave us"

Mencius, Philosopher

"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die"

Plato, Philosopher

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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

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"Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

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"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

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"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious"

Herodotus, Historian

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"The best mirror is an old friend"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

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"The only way to have a friend is to be one"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

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"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival"

C. S. Lewis, Author

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"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

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"No man is useless while he has a friend"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

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"I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"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, President

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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder"

John F. Kennedy, President

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"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

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"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice"

Ben Jonson, Poet

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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities"

C. S. Lewis, Author

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"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years"

Richard Bach, Novelist

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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence"

George Washington, President

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"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good"

Helen Keller, Author

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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

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