The Absolutely, Positively Best Things Ever Said

about the Art of Friendship and Creating Best Friends

Friendship Sayings, Friendship Quotes,

Friendship Poems, and Excerpts from:

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for Having Great Friends

Friendship Poems

From quiet homes and first beginning,

Out to the undiscovered ends,

There's nothing worth the wear of winning,

But laughter and the love of friends.

— Hilaire Belloc 

 

Today a man discovered gold and fame,
Another flew the stormy seas;
One found the germ of a disease.
But what high fates my path attend:
For I — today I found a friend.
— Helen Barker Parker

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Advice

between Best Friends

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend

in the affairs of life.

— Titus Maccius Plautus

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good,
some of it is bad.
— Unknown Wise Person

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we
must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right
or wrong.
— Pierre Charron

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
— Solon

The best thing one friend can do for another is to refrain from giving
advice.
— Unknown Wise Person

 

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice
from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become
a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded.
If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those
who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
— Joseph Marshall Wade

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

— Baltasar Gracian

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to
venture to instruct, even our friends.
— C.C. (Charles Caleb) Colton

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for
very long.
— Robert Lynd

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute.
He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
— Arthur Brisbane

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Adversity

between Best Friends

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
— Homer (9th century B.C.)

Friends show their love in times of trouble . . .
— Euripides (408 B.C.)

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

— John Churton Collins

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
— Lois McMaster Bujold

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
— James Fenimore Cooper

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Arguing with

Your Best Friends

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into
a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
— George Eliot

Be careful of what you say, friendship can end in one minute because
of a stupid word.
— Unknown Wise Person

No one ever won an argument that lost a friend.
— Unknown Wise Person

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship as . . . the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
— Saint Fancis de Sales

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
— David Hume

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
— Abraham Lincoln

You win the victory when you yield to friends.
— Sophocles

The more arguments you win, the fewer friends you'll have.
— Unknown Wise Person

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Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes — Being

Separated from Your Best Friends

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness
when distant that proves a lasting friendship.
— Susan P. Schultz

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
— Elizabeth Bowen

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
— Unknown Wise Person

The best of friends must part.
— Unknown Wise Person

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
— Richard Bach

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
— John Muir

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away — and leaves behind only silence.
— Pam Brown

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say good-bye
to.
— Unknown Wise Person

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
— Benjamin Disraeli

Letters are visits when friends are apart.
— Unknown Wise Person

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth.
— Robert Southey

Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes — Being True

to Your Best Friends

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
— Henry David Thoreau

If we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four
friends in the world.
— Blaise Pascal

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the
best things you can be.
— Douglas Pagels

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Best

Friends in General

A [best] friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your
accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreamsand offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
— Doris Wild Helmering

Best friends are the siblings God chose not to give us.
— Unknown Wise Person

A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.
— Unknown Wise Person

Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly.
— Unknown Wise Person

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my
sake.
— Aristotle

All my best friends are so small town.
— Unknown Wise Person

My friend is one . . . who takes me for what I am.
— Henry David Thoreau

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best
friends listen to what you don't say.
— Unknown Wise Person

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 in the right.
— Mark Twain

A best friend is one who can tell you all his problems — but doesn't!
— Unknown Wise Person

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

— Elbert Hubbard

Great friends don't let their best friends drink Starbucks.
— Unknown Wise Person

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world
and back into yourself . . . If you don't have friends you see much less
than you otherwise might.
— Merle Shain

Best friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.

— Unknown Wise Person

A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.
— Christi Mary Warner

Friends are a second existence.
— Baltasar Gracian

Friends don’t snatch or act snobby, and they don’t argue or disagree.
If you’re nice to them, they’ll be nice to you.
— Julie, American Child, Eight Years Old

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
— Frances Ward Weller

Best friends are those who, when you show up at their door with a dead body,

say nothing, grab a shovel, and follow you.
— Unknown Wise Person

It is perhaps one of the best achievements to become friends with your

worst enemies and one of the worst disasters to become enemies with

your best friends.
— Philippos

Best friends are fully aware of how retarded you are and still manage to be seen with you in public!
— Unknown Wise Person

Friends are the ones who will consider leaving you when your world is falling apart, but best friends are the ones who will stay with you when your world is falling apart, even if their world might fall apart too.
— Talia Cobb

Best friends are those who treat you kindly behind your back.
— Unknown Wise Person

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your
accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages
your dreams and offers advice — but when you don't follow it, they
still respect and love you.
— Doris Wild Helmering

A best friend in kindergarten is the one who sat next to you and let you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one was left.
— Unknown Wise Person

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute
to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine
taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
— Judith Viorst

Best friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.
— Unknown Wise Person

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to
learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to
tell them.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friends are the sunshine of life.

— John Hay

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
— Marlene Dietrich

 

Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes — Borrowing

Money from a Best Friend

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
— Unknown Wise Person

Money separates more best friends than it unites.
— Unknown Wise Person

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without
security.
— William Shakespeare

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets
when he has got holes in his pockets.
— Douglas Hurd

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Buying

Friends with Money

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

— Spike Milligan

You never really know how many friends you have until you buy a house
with a swimming pool and a tennis court.
— Unknown Wise Person

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

— Austin O'Malley

Friends that you can buy [with money] are a dime a dozen, and will
shortchange you if given a chance.
— Unknown Wise Person

Friendship that is bought will not stay bought; sooner or later there
will be a higher bidder.
— Unknown Wise Person

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Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Children

and Their Best Friends

Children treat their friends differently than they treat the other
people in their lives. A friendship is a place for experimenting with
new ways of handling anger and aggression. It is an arena for practicing
reciprocity, testing assertiveness, and searching for compromise in
ways children would not try with parents or siblings.
— Lawrence Kutner

It is possible to make friends with our children — but probably not
while they are children.

— Donald C. Medeiros

You send a boy to school in order to make friends — the right sort.

— Virginia Woolf

Adolescents sometimes say . . . ”My friends listen to me, but my parents
only hear me talk.” Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

— Laurence Steinberg

Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not,
and they play a critical role in shaping children’s social skills
and their sense of identity . . . The difference between a child with
close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable
to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child
who is distressed in one large area of life.

— Zick Rubin

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Communication

Principles for Best Friends

Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will
not believe you anyway.
— Elbert Hubbard

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which
any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
— Jonathan Swift

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them,

and important to our friendship that we are not.
— Mignon McLaughlin

Silences make the real conversation between friends.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
— Marge Piercy

It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater
to tell him his.
— Benjamin Franklin

Don't bore your friends with your troubles. Tell them to your enemies,
who will be delighted to hear about them.
— Unknown Wise Person

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your
friends that you know how to tell the truth.
— Edgar Watson Howe

When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.
— Christian H. Godefroy

Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes — Criticizing

Your Best Friends

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable
things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
— François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
— Publilius Syrus

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
— Chinese Proverb

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your fiend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault
and never forgive you.
— Logan Pearsall Smith

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends — you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
— Alice Duer Miller

 

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Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Definition

of Friendship

Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish
of loneliness.
— Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart
warm.
— Augustine Birrell

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity
by dividing and sharing it.
— Cicero (44 B.C.)

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to
promote the good and happiness of one another.
— Eustace Budgell (1711)

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and
the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient:
why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
— Thomas Jefferson

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make
up what everyone means by friendship.
— Francis Marion Crawford

Friendship isn't a big thing — it's a million little things.
— Unknown Wise Person

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small
favors for big ones.
— Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to
promote the good and happiness of one another.
— Eustace Budgell

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
— Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle

Friendship is a furrow in the sand.

— Tongan Proverb

Friendship is love without his wings.
— Lord Byron

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence
above language.
— Henry David Thoreau

Do you know what friendship is . . . it is to be brother and sister;
two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
— Victor Hugo

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.
— Muhammed Ali

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
— Mencius

Friendship . . . It's not about having friends, it's about being one.
Sacrificing your comforts and emotional stability to further improve
theirs.
— Suzanne J, Starr

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Enemies and Best Friends

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

— William Blake

There is only one reason why your enemy can't become your best friend —
YOU!

— Unknown Wise Person

He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson

Some people make enemies instead of friends because it's less trouble.
— Unknown Wise Person

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
— Al Pacino in the movie The Godfather, Part II (1974)

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
— Arabian Proverb

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
— Mahatma Gandhi

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
— Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD)

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
— Thomas Jones

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies — never.
— Mason Cooley

There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends;
that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar Wilde

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my
friends.
— Walt Whitman

He [Bernard Shaw] hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends
like him.
— Oscar Wilde

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you
to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news
to you.
— Mark Twain

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

— Aristotle

God save me from my friends — I can protect myself from my enemies.

— Unknown Wise Person

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
— Proverbs 27:6

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Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Faltering Friendships

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
— W. Somerset Maugham

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from
it respect.
— Cicero

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo,
His best friends hear no more of him.
— Percy Shelley

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
— Publilius Syrus

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends,
that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
— Henry David Thoreau

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
— Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges
are fixed in a known routine.
— A. J. Cronin

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable
to divorce.
— Voltaire

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

— W. Somerset Maugham

 

Friendship Sayings and Quotes — Friendship between Men and Women

I have always laid it down as a maxim — and found it justified by
experience — that a man and a woman make far better friendships than
can exist between two of the same sex — but then with the condition
that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
— Lord Byron

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve
it — to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
— Oscar Wilde

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always
wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is
ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
— Nora Ephron

General Friendship Sayings and Frienship Quotes

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
— Humphrey Bogart in the movie Casablanca (1942)

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
— Zora Neale Hurston

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
— Theodore Harold White

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
— Geoffrey F. Albert

Friends hold both the power to excel your life, or destroy it.
— Adam Murphy

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:
"What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.
— C. S. Lewis

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

— Al Pacino in the movie The Godfather, Part II (1974)

Friendship Poems

I've discovered a way to stay friends forever —
There's really nothing to it.
I simply tell you what to do
And you do it!
— Shel Silverstein

 

Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;
Scatter bits of courtesy — watch them grow and grow.
Gather buds of friendship;
Keep them till full-blown;
You will find more happiness
than you have ever known.
— Amy R. Raabe

 

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes — Happiness

and Friendship

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring
forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
— Thomas Jefferson

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Unknown wise person

True happiness . . . arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

— Joseph Addison

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

— Joseph Addison

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do.
— Anna Howard Shaw

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
— Samuel Johnston

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
— Thomas Jefferson

The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends. And no investment on the street pays larger dividends. For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent. And he who gives in friendship’s name shall reap what he has spent.
— Anne S. Eaton

Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
— Unknown Wise Person

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

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus

 

Friendship Sayings and Friendship Quotes

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Friendship Proverb

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself.
— Chinese proverb

Friendship Saying

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
— Unknown Wise Person

Friendship Quote

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship Quote

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends:
have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
— Dhammapada

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A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.
— H. L. Mencken

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to
noble deeds.
— Aristotle

A true friend will go to hell for you. An enemy will certainly try to send you there.
— Unknown Wise Person

Classic Friendship Poems

Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He may still leave thy garland green.
— Emily Brontë (1818-48), English novelist, Love and Friendship (1846).

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache:
Do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
— William Blake

He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back.
— Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774) Retaliation. Line 107.

 

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