Top 1200 Best Friendship Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. — © Friedrich Nietzsche
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
In the short term, it absolutely feels devastating to break a bond of friendship. In the long term, it is the best possible thing. You're actually doing something noble and good if you do it in the right way. You can leave them with, "I wish you the best, but I have to take care of myself." Or you don't have to wish them the best. It's okay if you don't. Maybe they don't deserve the best. That's not up to you to decide. You not wishing someone the best is not going to make anyone's life not the best.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me.
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed. — © C. S. Lewis
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
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Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavior that is characteristic of friendship. Two people can engage in the very same behavior - visiting someone in hospital, for example - and yet only one of them might be doing so out of friendship; moreover, friends can be doing absolutely anything together, even quarrel or fight. That means that it is difficult, if not impossible, to recognize a friendship simply on the basis of what people do.
The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.
Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think one of life’s most satisfying accomplishments for my wife and me is to have lived long enough to see our children become good friends.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
We need to build a Biblical friendship, a friendship established on the principles of God's Word.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage
In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .
Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.
True friendship is never serene. — © Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene.
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.
I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.
I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters. — © Wallace Stegner
There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn't a friendship when - as, for example, it's me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn't matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.
Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.
Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.
In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
Lee Marvin was just the best. Just the best. And that was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until he died. And the same with Ernie Borgnine. You know, I went up there and did that movie [Emperor Of The North] with those guys, and I actually was with Ernie the night that he died.
Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.
I think the most important feeling in the world is friendship. The friendship between Michiru and Haruka is so strong, that it becomes love.
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