Quotes on friendship or true friendship quotes will cover different aspects of friendship and friends. What the wise and smart people have said about a true friend, and old friend and how to be a good friend…
“Only a real friend will tell you when your face is dirty.”
~Sicilian Proverb
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
~Arnold H. Glasow
“True friendship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.”
~Denise Martin
“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
~Pinoeer Girls Leaders’ Handbook
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”
~George Washington
“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”
~Dave Tyson
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
~Walter Winchell
“A friend in need is a friend indeed.”
~Anonymous
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Best Friend Quotes
A Loyal Friend Laughs At Your Jokes
“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
~Arnold H Glasgow
“A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.”
~The Optimist Magazine
“I thank you dear friend, for sharing in my life- the dark hours, the challenges, the struggles and strife, the good times, the laughter, the love, and the cheer through all and all- I’m blessed you are near.”
~Steve Myrvang
“A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.”
~Farmers Almanac
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
~Ed Cunnigham
“What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.”
~Seneca
“T is great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his.”
~Benjamin Franklin
“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.”
~Mark Twain
Old Friend Quotes
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
~John Leonard
“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.”
~Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.”
~Benjamin Franklin
“When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.”
~Edvard Grieg
“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.”
~John Selden
How to be a Good Friend Quotes
“Only way to have a friend is to be one.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go oft to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
~Raplh Waldo Emerson
“Bea friend to thyself and others will be too.”
~Thomas Fuller
“The golden rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you.”
~David Augsburger
“Youcan make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”
~Dale Carnegie
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
~George Washington
“Those who can’t give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.”
~Dagobert D. Runes
“Itis not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him, that determines the quality of your friendship.”
~Mary Dixon Thayer
Joy Of Friendship Quotes
“The most beautiful discovery friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
~Elisabeth Foley
“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their face away.”
~Walker Percy
“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.”
~Joseph Addison
“Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.”
~Henry David Thoreau
“Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.”
~H G Bohn
“If it’s painful for you to criticize your friends, you’re safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold the tongue.”
~Alice Duer Miller
“No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.”
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The best mirror is a friend’s eye.”
~Gaelic Proverb
“To a friend’s house, the road is never long.”
~Anonymous
“How are and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.”
~William Rotsler
“All for one and one for all.”
~Motto of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers
(also the traditional motto of Switzerland).
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
~Aristotle
“Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.”
~Catiline
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
~Eustace Budgell
“Friends feel each other’s joys and sorrows as their own.”
~Anonymous
“We are known by our friends.”
~Anonymous
Enemies Versus Friends Quotes
“Make God thy friend, and then it’s no matter who is thy enemy.”
~Thomas Fuller
“Enemies should be chosen as carefully as friends.”
~Anonymous
“Better a wise enemy than a foolish friend.”
~Arab Saying
“Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.”
~Mario Puzo
“An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.”
~John Gay
“God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.”
~James Howell
“Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.”
~Antisthenes
