Friendship Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.”
– E.W. Howe

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.”
– Edith Wharton

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
– Robert Brault

“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“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

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”
– Anäis Nin

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”
– Eustache Deschamps

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”
– Samuel Pepys

“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.”
– Sarah Orne Jewett

“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
– Blaise Pascal

“If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.”
– Robert Brault

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
– Francesco Guicciardini

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

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“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

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
– Plutarch

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.”
– David Storey

“In my friend, I find a second self.”
– Isabel Norton

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