Friendship Sayings

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“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
– Virginia Woolf

“I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.”
– Robert Brault

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.”
– Robert Brault

“Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.”
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
– Plautus

“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

“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
– Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.”
– Robert Brault

“As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.”
– Robert Brault

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.”
– Rod McKuen

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
– William Blake

“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
– Shirley Maclaine

“What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be – and without having to pretend.”
– Robert Brault

“Friendship is Love, without his wings.”
– Lord Byron

“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
– William Penn

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
– Lois Wyse

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
– Katherine Mansfield

“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.”
– Frances Ward Weller

“The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.”
– Robert Brault

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”
– Diana Cortes

“It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.”
– Euripides

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