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Friendship Quotes


"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends."


"My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'"


"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."


"When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school."


"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."


"Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater."


"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."


"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."


"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."


"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."


"We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States."


"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming."


"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible."


"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."


"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."


"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"


"A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part."



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


"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."


"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."


"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear."


"Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends-maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be."


"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."


"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now."


"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."


"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."


"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly."


"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."


"My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people."


"The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear."


"Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind."


"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."


"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."


"One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country."


"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without."


"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."


"We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us."


"Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me."


"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."


"Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk."


"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."


"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."


"Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us."


"Tom Byron is my friend. JJ Michaels is my friend. I haven't heard from him. I don't know what he believes. A couple of other have called but I haven't called them back."
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