Friendship Quotes

Friendship is a special kind of love. And a true friend is hard to find. So when you do find one, hang on tight, don't let go and remind that friend every once in a while how much he or she means to you. Here are 37 inspirational friendship quotes to get you started.

1. "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
2. "No friendship is an accident." ―O. Henry, Heart of the West
3. "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."―Helen Keller
4. "Oh, you're the best friends anybody ever had. And it's funny, but I feel as if I'd known you all the time, but I couldn't have, could I?"—Wizard of Oz
5. "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." —Albert Camus
6. "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." ―Elie Wiesel
7. "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
8. "Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends." —It's a Wonderful Life
9. "A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow." ―William Shakespeare
10. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." ―Linda Grayson
11. "The best mirror is an old friend." ―George Herbert
12. "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." ―Oscar Wilde
13. "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" ―Abraham Lincoln
14. "It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." —Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
15. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." ―Aristotle
16. "There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends." ―Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
17. "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
18. "There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met." ―Jim Henson, Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets
19. "When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier." ―Diane Von Furstenberg
20. "A friend to all is a friend to none." ―Aristotle
21. "Only a true friend would be that truly honest." —Shrek
22. "Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks." —Waqar Ahmed
23. "The only way to have a friend is to be one." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. "Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."―Socrates
25. "True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style."―Nicole Richie
26. "I have two friends, Steve and Martin. But I'd happily replace both for the friendship of Steve Martin." ―Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
27. "Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends." —Virginia Woolfe
28. "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve." —Stand by Me
29. "True friendship is never serene." —Marquise de Sevigne
30. "Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends." —Joe Cocker

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." ―Jim Morrison
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." —Buddha
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." —George Washington