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Friendship Quotes


"I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy."


"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."


"The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit."


"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"


"When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well."


"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."


"Is there any friendship, without forgiveness?"


"Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow."


"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."


"My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost."


"Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off."


"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."


"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."


"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."


"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."


"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."


"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."


"In times of adversity, you will realize who is there for you. The struggle is real and those who walk with you with love, are honorable true friends. Be thankful for the friends and loved ones you've got."


"Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds."


"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."


"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?"


"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."


"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."


"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."


"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."


"Honest friends is kinda nice, but it's hard to beat a big-ass lie and a six-pack of brewskies."


"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich."


"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"


"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."


"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."


"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"



"For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."


"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."


"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."


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


"I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me."


"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."


"I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape."



"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."


"There is no friend like a book there is no beauty like a kind heart."


"Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud."



"Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly."


"No one has a closest friend in Hollywood."


"Frankly, the only good people who I know are dogs."


"Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones."


"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."


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