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Friendship Quotes


"When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?"


"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."


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


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



"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."


"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."


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


"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."


"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."


"In the 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."



"The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."


"I'm faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I'm a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. "If you get in trouble, I'll be there."Nice, Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey."No, you're not."Okay, no, I'm not, but right now let's pretend I am."


"When everything is lonely I can be my best friend."


"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."


"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."


"Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends."


"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."



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


"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."


"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."


"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."


"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."


"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."


"In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable."


"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."


"A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing."


"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."


"Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one."


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


"The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters."


"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."


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


"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."



"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."


"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."



"You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit."


"I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars."


"Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem."


"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."


"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."


"Just a few questions for you, Mr. Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we've become friends in these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?"



"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."


"We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional."


"There are no friends at cards or world politics."
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