Friends are the best to turn to when you’re having a rough day.
– Justin Bieber
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
– Shirley MacLaine
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
– John Leonard
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
– Benjamin Franklin
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
– Dag Hammarskjold
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
– Samuel Pepys
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
– Epicurus
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
– Khalil Gibran
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
– Honore de Balzac
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
– Henry David Thoreau
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
– George Jean Nathan
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
– Sophocles
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
– Confucius
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
– Katherine Mansfield
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
– Virginia Woolf
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
– E. W. Howe
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
– Taylor Swift
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
– Francis Quarles
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
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
– Laurence J. Peter
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
– Oscar Wilde
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
– Margaret Lee Runbeck
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
– George MacDonald
