Friendship adds flavor to life. Without it, life would be a lot more difficult. If it wasn’t for your friends and their encouragement during challenging times, life’s obstacles would seem a lot more daunting. The following quotes about friends celebrate the power of friendship. Enjoy reading! PS: if you can’t get enough of friendship quotes, have a look at our selection of best friend quotes.
With everything that life throws at us, it’s invaluable to have someone you can share your thoughts and feelings with. The beauty of true friendship is that your friends will be there for you not only during times of sunshine but also when it’s raining.
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
Jane Austen
Friendship, however, is not about taking – it’s about giving. The true test of friendship arises when you yourself or one of your friends is going through a crisis in life. This is the moment when true friends turn into a beacon of light, giving encouragement, support, and hope to the one that is struggling.
These awesome quotes about friends celebrate the power of friendship
It’s a true gift to have a couple of awesome friends that love you unconditionally. But as with everything in life, maintaining and strengthening a friendship takes the willingness to put in effort and time. This may not always be easy, which is why the following collection of quotes comes in quite handy.
120 Inspirational Quotes about Friends
There are so many marvelous aspects about friendship that it’s quite difficult to put them all into words. If you’re struggling to find the right words to articulate the deep affection you have for your friends, the following quotes about friends are for you. You can use them as inspiration to think about all the wonderful moments you’ve experienced with your friends. Enjoy reading
Here’s our collection of beautiful quotes about friends:
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“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
Elbert Hubbard
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“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
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“Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together.”
Jon Katz
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“Friendship… is born at the moment when one says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.”
C.S. Lewis
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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
Baltasar Gracián
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“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.”
Zig Ziglar
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“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
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“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
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“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
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“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted.”
Jon Katz
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“Friendship is the wine of life. „
Edward Young
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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
Linda Grayson
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“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
Unknown
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“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
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“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
Unknown
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“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”
Socrates
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“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.”
Dale Carnegie
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“[It’s] the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have your nonsense respected.”
Charles Lamb
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“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
Ethel Barrymore
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“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham
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“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.”
Oprah Winfrey
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“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
Thomas J. Watson
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“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
Bernard Meltzer
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin
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“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
Winnie the Pooh
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“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.”
Laurence J. Peter
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“True friends see the full picture of your soul.”
Shannon Alder
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“A world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.”
Bertrand Russell
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“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Jim Henson
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“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
Marlene Dietrich
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“When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
Edgar Watson Howe
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“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
Khalil Gibran
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“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.”
Clifton Fadiman
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“Friendship is thinking of the other person first.”
George Alexiou
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“Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments – because they’re willing to brave the shadows with you – and in your greatest moments – because they’re not afraid to let you shine.”
Nicole Yatsonsky
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“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
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“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.”
Jean de La Bruyère
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“Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.”
Baha’u’llah
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“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
Donna Roberts
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin
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“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
Elisabeth Foley
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“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
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“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.”
Muhammad Ali
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“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
Emil Ludwig
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“Friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”
Baltasar Gracian
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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
Gloria Naylor
These inspirational quotes about friends are full of wisdom
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“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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“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
David Tyson
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
C.S. Lewis
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“My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”
Helen Keller
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“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.”
Katherine Mansfield
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“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
Maxwell Maltz
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“Friendship, however, is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“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?”
Eugene Kennedy
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“Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.”
Myles Munroe
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“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
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“When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.”
Stephen Richards
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“Many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
Windhy Puspitadewi
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
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“Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
Dag Hammarskjöld
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“Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats – let you know if you’re off course.”
Rebecca Wells
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“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”
Ulysses S. Grant
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“Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn’t matter if they even happened.”
Leila Howland
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“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
Epicurus
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“Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.”
Mike Norton
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If you really love your friends, they’re never really gone. Somewhere they’re watching over you and they’re always there inside your heart.”
Brian Jacques
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“A true friend finds a way to celebrate—even in the worst moments of life—and forces it upon you.”
Rionna Morgan
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“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
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“Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.”
Raven Symone
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“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out.”
Pam Brown
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“Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.”
Mariama Bâ
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“Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.”
Beth Bernobich
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“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought.”
Fulton J. Sheen
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“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Sarah Dessen
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“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn’t be the cost of failure for a good friend.”
Jodi Picoult
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“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family, but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.”
Willa Cather
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“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
John Leonard
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“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
Samuel Johnson
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“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The whole point of being a good friend is being in the darkness. I’ll be your light until you can be it yourself again.”
Catherine Doyle
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“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”
Graham Greene
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“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
Aristotle
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“Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies… and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to “keep” by force of mere inertia.”
William James
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“If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.”
Peter Deunov
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“Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.”
Lemony Snicket
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“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
George Santayana
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“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
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“Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island.”
Baltasar Gracian
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“He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.”
Abraham Kuyper
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“Loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.”
Milan Kundera
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“I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality.”
Connor Franta
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“Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honors its laws.”
Ogwo David Emenike
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“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”
Richard Russo
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“We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away.”
Judy Blume
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“That’s what friends should do. Cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.”
Beth Hoffman
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“Friends are born, not made.”
Henry Adams
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“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Abraham Lincoln
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“I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.”
Milan Kundera
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“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”
Les Brown
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“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
Robert Brault
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“A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you’ve gone off the deep end.”
Liz Fenton
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“It were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends”
John Chrysostom
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“A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.”
Steve Lopez
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“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”
Stephen King
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“The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely.”
Dinah Craik
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“Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.”
Crystal Woods
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“Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.”
Ron Hall
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“I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honor and friendship and loyalty without a price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.”
David Gemmell
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“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.”
Gary D. Schmidt
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“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter an immortal one.”
Epicurus
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“True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.”
Charles Caleb Colton
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“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Friendship is love without wings.”
George Gordon Byron
I hope you enjoyed this collection of quotes about friends. Feel free to share your favorite quotes in this list with some of your best friends.
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