99 Friendship Quotes To Celebrate Your Bond

1.  To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. Sallust
2. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. Confucius
3. Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell
4. She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison
5. Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett
6. The world is round so that friendship may encircle it, and I hope sweet words for my best friend may express how much I care about our friendship. 
7. If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Marie de France
8. Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson
9. Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James F. Byrnes
10. One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Brooks Adams
11. It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations. James F. Byrnes
12. Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving
13. We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do. Dave Blood
14. Love demands infinitely less than friendship. George Jean Nathan
15. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown
16. The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. Barack Obama
17. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? Anais Nin
18. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson
19. Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. Max Jacob
20. Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities. C. S. Lewis
21. Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig
22. If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. Eve Arnold
23. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen Keller
24. If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
25. Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker
26. For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila
27. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. William Hazlitt
28. Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. Rowan D. Williams
29. Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. Johann Kaspar Lavater
30. A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
31. It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. Elbert Hubbard
32. The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. David Storey
33. Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero
34. Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. Petrarch
35. If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
36. Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard
37. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln
38. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau
39. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. Benjamin Franklin
40. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Charles Alexander Eastman
41. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
42. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. Simone Weil
43. One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. Marcelene Cox
44. From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. Adam Clayton
45. My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. Georg Brandes
46. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around. Jennifer Beals
48. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! Doug Larson
49. I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. Jean Cocteau
50. Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. Jonathan Edwards
51. Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets. Eleanor Robson Belmont
52. Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. Sydney Smith
53. Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun
54. Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. William Wycherley
55. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck
56. I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years. Donna Leon
57. The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. Sallust
58. I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Henry David Thoreau
59. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
60. All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. Sallust
61. An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him. Oscar Wilde
62. Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas
63. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. Octavia Butler
64. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus
65. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac
66. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. Charles Eastman
67. It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. Theophile Gautier
68. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
69. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana
70. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Simone de Beauvoir
71. I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. Joel Edgerton
72. Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. Kenneth Branagh
73. Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. Anna Deavere Smith
74. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison
75. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane
76. 006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters. Sean Bean
77. Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor
78. They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. Henry Walter Bates
79. I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. Tim Finn
80. I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. Warren Christopher
81. I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. Paul Simon
82. I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends. Joan Cusack
83. Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine. Charles Dickens
84. All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
85. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
86. Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. Lucan
87. To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up. Christopher Knight
88. Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. Oliver Goldsmith
89. The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. Jasmine Guy
90. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero
91. Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. Truman Capote
92. Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? Emily Bronte
93. My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown. Julie Burchill
94. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson
95. I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. Woodrow Wilson
96. A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. Jena Malone
97. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
98. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington
99. Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. Eric Massa