Friend and Friendship Quotes: 30 Beautiful Expressions of Bonding

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'” — C.S. Lewis

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” — Unknown

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” — C.S. Lewis

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides

“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracián

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” — Nicole Richie

“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.” — Anaïs Nin

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” — Douglas Pagels

“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

“No friendship is an accident.” — O. Henry, Heart of the West

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

“Friends are the family you choose.” — Jess C. Scott

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” — Charles Caleb Colton

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” — Eugene Kennedy

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali