The funniest and most inspiring quotes about friendship
Few things have as important an impact on happiness and joy, depth and pleasure of living as the friendships we have.
It can be friendships with our partners, family members, colleagues and people we have known for a few years now or since we were children.
Or even with people we've never met on the other side of the world or with the animals we love.
quotes about friendship, beautiful, sometimes poignant and sometimes funny, that give you pause for thought.
1- Walter Winchell
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
2- Winnie the Pooh
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
3- Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
4- C.S. Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
5- David Tyson
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
6- Washington Irving
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
7- Jim Henson
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
8- Leo Buscaglia
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
9- Thomas J. Watson
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
10- Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
11- Unknown
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
12- Confucius
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
13 -Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
14- Shel Silverstein
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.
15- Plutarch
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
16- Albert Schweitzer
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
17- Eugene Kennedy
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?
18- Arnold H. Glasgow
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
19- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
20- Muhammad Ali
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.
21- Winnie the Pooh
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart… I'll always be with you.
22- Ally Condie
Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.
23 - George Santayana
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
24- Audrey Hepburn
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
25- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
26- Clifton Fadiman
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
27- Leo F. Buscaglia
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
28- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
29- Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
30- Charles Lamb
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
31- Zig Ziglar
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.
32- Laurence J. Peter
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.
33- Mark Twain
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
34- William Arthur Ward
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
35- Alice Walker
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
36- Woodrow T. Wilson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
37 -Ed Cunningham
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
38- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
39- Elisabeth Foley
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
40- Oprah Winfrey
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
