Last updated: 05/14/15
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Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage.-Doe Zantamata
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.-Albert Einstein
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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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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.-Seneca
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Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.-Margaret Lee Runbeck
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Remember: No one’s more important than people! In other words, friendship is the most important thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–and it needs to be tended and nurtured.-Julia Child
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What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.-Frank Crane
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel. Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how cruel the world maybe, life becomes less hard when you got a good friend.-Unknown
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No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes to heal, you will never get through it without your friends.-Unknown
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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.-Unknown
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.-Bernard Meltzer
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Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it.-Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.
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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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Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.-Vincent van Gogh
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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
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.-Dalai Lama
“Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).-C.S. Lewis
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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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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.-John Leonard
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Friendship is comfort knowing that even when you feel all alone, you aren’t.—
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.-Charles Darwin
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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.-Emily Kimbrough
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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.-John Quincy Adams
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.-C.S. Lewis
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A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.-Walter Winchell
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If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.-Thomas Fuller
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God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.-Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.-Ludwig van Beethoven
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.-George Washington
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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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.-Henri Nouwen
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You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.-E.B. White
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.-Henry Ford
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Friends are the most important ingredient in the recipe called life.—
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.-William Butler Yeats
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My friends are my estate.-Emily Dickinson
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.-Arnold H. Glasow
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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 friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.—
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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.-Henry David Thoreau
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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 and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation.-Helen Keller
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.-Ethel Barrymore
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.-Joseph Addison
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.-Greg Tamblyn
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The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.-Giotto di Bondone
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.-Buddha
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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
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.-French Proverb
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A true friend stabs you in the front.-Oscar Wilde
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A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.-Jim Morrisson
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.-Confucius
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A true friend loves at all times.-Proverbs 17:17
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.-Khalil Gibran
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Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your world.-William James
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A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what we should be; a friend affirms us when we’re weak and gives us strength to let us free.-Unknown
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.-Friedrich Nietzsche
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May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.-Irish Proverb
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A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.-Lucy Larcom
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.-Elie Wiesel
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True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.-Unknown
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.-Walt Whitman
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.-Benjamin Disraeli
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It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.-Thomas Huxley
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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.-Dean Koontz
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Between men and woman there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.-Oscar Wilde
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To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.-Milan Kundera, Identity
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As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.-Dean Smith
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.-Euripides
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.-Truman Capote
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No road is long with good company.-Turkish Proverb
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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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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.-William Shakespeare
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.-Khalil Gibran
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.-Henry David Thoreau
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Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.-Eleanor Roosevelt
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The best things in life aren’t things… they’re your friends.-Unknown
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You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.-Bob Marley
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A friend in need is a friend indeed.-Latin Proverb
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True friendship is never serene.-Marquise de Sevigne
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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, Northanger Abbey
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To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life worthwhile.-Unknown
List of top 52 famous quotes and sayings about friends one word to read and share with friends on your Facebook, Twitter, blogs.
Top 52 Friends One Word Quotes
#1. Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye’s best lyrics match Dylan’s prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali. — Author: Dan Hill
#2. I remember when I was a kid being called names, including the ‘n’ word. The first time that happened, it really bothered me. But most of the people I dealt with were all white. Most of my close friends were white. — Author: Ken Griffey Jr.
#3. The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!) — Author: Willa Cather
#4. When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. — Author: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#5. All my friends and peers keep asking me when I’m going to rest — I just tell them it’s another dirty four-letter word! — Author: Dionne Warwick
#6. What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors — in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer. — Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#7. I don’t set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can’t force it. This terrible word — ‘networking’ — I really hate. — Author: Ben Elliot
#8. I want us to be … what is your word? Friends.»
«Psychotic rapists don’t have friends.»
«I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered.»
(Mac & V’lane) — Author: Karen Marie Moning
#9. You can’t be everybody’s friend, you can’t save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you’re not a friend to yourself. — Author: Mike Tyson
#10. Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee. — Author: Kathryn Stockett
#11. DON’T GET TOO CLOSE.
friends can only hurt you.
DON’T SAY A WORD.
it may be your last.
DON’T SLOW DOWN.
they will catch you. — Author: Michelle Gagnon
#12. I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn’t speak a word of English at the beginning. I am very thankful for this country and the opportunity music has given me … My three kids were born here in Miami; they speak Spanish at home, but English with all their friends. — Author: Juanes
#13. And be these juggling friends no more believ’d, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. — Author: William Shakespeare
#14. Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are out of communion with Him. — Author: D.L. Moody
#15. Why have you chosen to spare me?»
«I want us to be … what is your word? Friends.»
«Psychotic rapists don’t have friends.»
«I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered.»
«Ha.» I’d set myself up for that one. — Author: Karen Marie Moning
#16. Seems like I can’t stop the word vomit when I’m with her. There’s just something about Ally that distracts me just enough to forget myself, beckoning my truth like a siren’s call. I just want to tell her … everything.
Maybe we were friends in a past life. Or lovers. — Author: S.L. Jennings
#17. Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one’s friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion. — Author: Sharon Salzberg
#18. Grover went off with his satyr friends to spread the word about our strange encounter with the magic of Pan. Within an hour, the satyrs were all running around agitated, asking where the nearest espresso bar was. — Author: Rick Riordan
#19. But the best part of the evening was that there were whole hours when we sat around the fire pit and didn’t say a word. We were together as a group, but they knew I needed silence. That can be very hard for friends. — Author: Robin Roberts
#20. Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. — Author: George Ebers
#21. If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God! — Author: George Whitefield
#22. God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit. — Author: Sheila Walsh
#23. Oh, yes, Sir,» she breathed, and with that one word — Sir — the mood shifted from friends or even lovers to something deeper, something better. Slipping — Author: Claire Thompson
#24. Old friends are the great blessings of one’s later years. Half a word conveys one’s meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends? — Author: Horace Walpole
#25. When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully. — Author: Confucius
#26. I had never been allowed to invite friends on my birthday, and nor was I on this one. I was sullen and surly, I ate the cake without a word … — Author: Karl Ove Knausgard
#27. Many men think they’re playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word ‘loser.’ — Author: Graydon Carter
#28. Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It’s the kind of word you use to hide the truth. — Author: Krista Ritchie
#29. And wow! Hey! What’s this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name — ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? — Author: Douglas Adams
#30. I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything. — Author: Sessue Hayakawa
#31. As people are showing the Rift to friends, word will spread that VR can be that good. So I’m not so worried in terms of adoption of the Rift. — Author: Brendan Iribe
#32. There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met. — Author: Jim Henson
#33. You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven. — Author: Amy Layne Litzelman
#34. I don’t need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I’ve never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word ‘friend.’ I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship. — Author: Stefanie Powers
#35. I’m an outgoing person when it comes to friends, but when it comes to being confident and sexy, the sexy word scares me. — Author: Alexa Vega
#36. defenestration,» which derives from «fenestra,» the Latin word for «window,» refers to the act of throwing something or someone out of the window. Knowing this, we can impress our friends with statements like, «Sally finished her apple and defenestrated the core.») — Author: Doug Erlandson
#37. The word ‘friend’ has become so utterly void of meaning in a world governed by social media. How can anyone truly claim to have eleven hundred friends ? In my book that would involve making time to meet at least three of them every day of the year. — Author: Alex Morritt
#38. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us … The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God’s initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving. — Author: J.I. Packer
#39. It’s kind of odd when you think of Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it around to their friends and family. — Author: Patty Loveless
#40. RON: Only- friends. Funny word- friends. Not that funny. Just a word, really. Friends. Friend. Funny friend. You, my funny friend, my Hermoine. Not that- not my Hermoine, you understand- not MY Hermoine- not MINE- you know, but… — Author: J.K. Rowling
#41. My friends and I were famous, if that’s the word, as The Lice. We were small, annoying, and constantly in someone’s hair. — Author: Wayne Turmel
#42. Isn’t there a word for friends that mess around?»
«Yeah, it’s called girlfriend and boyfriend. — Author: Renee Carlino
#43. But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up — Author: Nas
#44. In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you’re dead. — Author: Morton Blackwell
#45. I have a word quota I try to fulfill every day, and I try to do that in the morning and into the afternoon and then go out with friends at night. I love singing and have lessons and enjoy drama, and so I am involved in that. — Author: Alexandra Adornetto
#46. Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It’s good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd. — Author: Vanna Bonta
#47. Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word «best» and decide to expand your circle to include others. — Author: Shannon L. Alder
#48. You did say something I found offensive yesterday.
What was that?
I believe the word you used was friends. — Author: J.R. Richardson
#49. I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven’t murdered yet. — Author: Scott Lynch
#50. I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. — Author: Arthur Wellesley
#51. The word friends doesn’t seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops. — Author: Ann Brashares
#52. Friends I would like to challenge you to do an experiment, in the privacy of your studies. Everywhere you see the name «Jesus» in the Bible, replace it with the word light and see what that does to you. — Author: Sunday Adelaja
Proverbs are wise sayings handed down over many generations used to pass on wisdom and to teach. Some are thousands of years old. Whereas others were created in the last 50 years.
Here are 20 common English Proverbs about friends and friendship, along with their meanings.
1. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
When everyone else leaves you in your life, including your spouse or family, the ones that step in and help you are your real friends.
Real friends are there for you when no one else in your life is. That’s why they also say that you learn who you real friends are in times of trouble.
2. A dog is man’s best friend
Dogs are loyal friends to have in your life. They do everything to protect and please their owner. They are faithful companions that make themselves of value to their owner, doing anything for them and giving him/her unconditional love without asking much in return.
3. A friend in need is a friend indeed
A friend that sticks with you and helps you when you’re in trouble is a true friend. For example, if you have a friend who helps you even when you have nothing to give back to them at that moment, they are a true friend.
4. A friend to all is a friend to none
A friendship with a person who is friends with everyone is not unique or truly valuable. You can’t count on them. They won’t protect you or stick up for you when you have problems with others because they’re also friends with the other people too.
5. A friend’s eye is a good mirror
Sometimes we don’t see ourselves as clearly as we do others. A good friend will truthfully tell you whether you do something good or bad which is valuable to have.
6. A man is known by his friends
People judge you by the company you keep. Others will look at your friends and make assumptions about you based on the friends you choose to have in your life.
They also mean to say that it’s important who you pick as your friends because it affects your reputation.
Also known as: “A man is known by the company he keeps.”
7. Absence makes the heart grow fonder
When those you love – friends, family, or romantic partners – are physically far away from you, you feel more love for them. This is partial because you miss them and think more positively about them when they’re not with you.
8. As thick as thieves
Meaning to have a very strong friendship, similar to feeling like family rather than friends. This is like when you see in the movies that there is a “pirate’s code” or a “thieves code” connecting all of them as if one big loyal family.
9. Birds of a feather flock together
People who like the same things and have similar personalities tend to enjoy spending time together. For example, different teenagers who like listening to rock music and skateboarding will all become friends and enjoy spending time together.
10. False friends are worse than open enemies
It’s better to at least know who your enemy is, instead of believing someone is your friend only to find out that they aren’t.
At least when you know who your enemy is, you know not to trust them. Whereas if the person you are counting on won’t be there when you need them, it would be better to know you can’t count on them sooner rather than later.
11. Familiarity breeds contempt
When you know too much about someone or something, or are too close to someone you can lose respect for them (or it).
For example, if Elvis were your father, you would know his flaws and problems more than other people who respect him and only saw the good side of him.
12. Friends are thieves of time
Thieves are people who steal from you. This proverb means that we use a lot of our free time to spend time with our friends instead of doing other things. Also, that time tends to move quickly and slips by without us realizing it when we are with our friends.
13. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept
It’s easy to make friends when you first meet someone. But over time to develop a real friendship takes effort and hard work. Similarly to how keeping money is harder than making it.
14. Friendship is love with understanding
When you are in a romantic relationship, feelings of love often make us biased or “blind” to the other person’s bad side. In friendships, we love a person with a complete knowledge of both their good and their bad sides. We’re not as biased as when in romantic relationships.
15. A friend at hand is better than a relative at a distance
Close companions in your life are more valuable than your family if you are not close to them.
This phrase is similar to the idea that your neighbor is more important in your life than your parents if they life far away. Because, if something happened to you, your neighbor could be there to help you.
16. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer
Your enemies wish to harm you. So, if you keep them close to you, by acting friendly with them, you are able to watch them in more detail and know what they’re planning before they do it.
This can also give you an advantage over them because you understand your enemy in better detail when you keep them close to you.
17. Lend your money. Lose your friend
You should never let your friends borrow your money. If you do lend them money, there is a big chance that you will either have problems with them paying you back, or they may become upset with you when you ask for your money back.
18. A man who has friends must himself be friendly
Friendship is created through two people. A friendship won’t last long if only one person makes an effort. Just like any relationship, both sides of a friendship must actively work at the friendship for it to continue and develop.
19. The rich knows not who is his friend
When someone is rich, many people want to be close to them to take advantage of their money. So, when someone has a lot of money, they don’t know whether the people close to them are close because of them, or because of their money.
20. Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
Even our greatest friends were at one time unknown to us. Everyone you meet in your life has the potential to become your friend. But you need to open yourself up to it and make an effort towards it. That’s why they say it’s waiting. It’s waiting for you to make it happen.
Do we miss any proverbs about friends and friendship? Leave them in the comment section below with their meaning.
Пословицы, поговорки и высказывания знаменитых людей на тему “Friends and friendship” могут помочь разнообразить уроки английского языка и обогатить словарный запас учеников в классах, в которых данная тема изучается (Unit 3 Form 7, Unit 2 Form 9, Unit 1 Form 10), а также будут полезны для подготовки к устному экзамену по английскому языку.
| English Proverb | Russian Equivalent |
| A friend in need is a friend indeed. | Друг в беде есть настоящий друг. Ср. Друзья познаются в беде. |
| A friend is never known till needed. | Друга не узнаешь, пока не понадобится его помощь. Ср. Неиспытанный друг ненадежен. Без беды друга не узнаешь. |
| A friend to all is a friend to none. | Тот, кто друг всем, не является другом никому. Ср. Всем брат — никому не брат. Приятелей много, да друга нет. И много друзей, да нет дружка. |
| A friend’s frown is better than a foe’s smile. | Лучше хмурое лицо друга, — чем улыбка врага. Ср. Лучше горькая правда друга, чем лесть врага. Недруг поддакивает, а друг спорит. |
| A man is known by the company he keeps. | Человек узнается по его друзьям. Ср. Скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу тебе, кто ты. С кем хлеб-соль водишь, на того и походишь. |
| All are not friends that speak us fair. | He всяк тот друг, кто нас хвалит. Ср. Не всякому другу верь. |
| Better lose a jest than a friend. | Лучше воздержаться от шутки, чем потерять друга. Ср. Не шути с таким ты шуток, кто на всяко слово чуток. Не шути над тем, что дорого другому. |
| Не is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. | Тот хороший друг, который о нас за глаза хорошее говорит. Ср. Хороший друг в лицо ругает, а за глаза хвалит. |
| Better an open enemy than a false friend. | Лучше иметь явного врага, чем лицемерного друга. Ср. Не та собака кусает, что лает, а та, что молчит да хвостом виляет. |
| A friend in court is better than a penny in purse. | Влиятельный друг дороже денег. (Не имей сто рублей, а имей сто друзей). |
| Better a new friend than an old foe. | Лучше новый друг, чем старый враг. |
| A friend’s frown is better than a foe’s smile. | Лучше хмурое лицо друга, — чем улыбка врага. Ср. Лучше горькая правда друга, чем лесть врага. Недруг поддакивает, а друг спорит. |
| A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend. | Шуткой врага не задобришь, а друга можешь оттолкнуть. Ср. Шутки шути, да людей не мути. Шути, да оглядывайся. |
| «One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.»Henry Adams | «Один друг на протяжении жизни — достаточно, два — много, три — едва возможно.»Генри Адамс |
| «Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.»Henry Clay Trumbull |
«Ценность дружбы в том, что в ней есть, а не в том, что из нее может быть.»Генри Клей Трамбулл |
| «We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.»Aristotle | «Относись к друзьям так, как ты хотел бы, чтобы они относились к тебе.»Аристотель |
| «The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.»Elbert Hubbard | «Друг — это тот, кто о тебе все знает и все равно тебя любит.»Элберт Грин Хаббард |
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From cute, funny captions to meaningful friendship sayings, these short friendship quotes say a thousand words in one line.
Close your eyes now and think of one person that has made your life different. Who are they?
I asked myself this question a lot. And to my surprise, the person that came up is not always a family member or a partner. Instead, most of the time, it’s a friend of mine. And it’s just incredible how someone who was once a stranger can mean so much.
I don’t have many friends. But I am blessed enough to have a small support network that carries me through bad times. For me, it’s all about the small things: a call when I was sick, a message when I doubted myself, and the times that we laughed so hard our stomachs hurt.
Friendship is a rare gift – not everyone is lucky enough to have true friends. It takes a lot for two individuals to build a lasting relationship. And if you are one of the lucky few, it’s important to tell them how much you cherish them.
So here are the best short friendship quotes that will do the talking for you. From cute one-liners for Instagram to deep, meaningful friendship sayings, these best friend quotes say a thousand words in one sentence. So scroll on and let me know which one reminds you of your bestie!
Best short friendship quotes for best friends
Cute and short friendship quotes
Do you have a best friend you want to brag about? Or do you have someone that gives you warm fuzzy feelings? If you do, tell them how much you appreciate them with these short cute best friend quotes.
Whether you are sending a message, writing a birthday card, or posting a BFF selfie, these adorable friendship sayings will make them feel loved and special.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
– Elbert Hubbard
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
– Eustache Deschamps
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
– Unknown
There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.
– Unknown
True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.
– Helen Keller
Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
– Paulo Coelho
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
– Khalil Gibran
In my friend, I find a second self.
– Isabel Norton
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
– Marlene Dietrich
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
– Mencius
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Best friends are once strangers that come into your life and never leave again.
Soulmates come in the form of friends, too.
– Sylvester Mcnutt
Best friends recognize your magic power before you do.
True friends are those who meet you at your worst and guide you towards the best.
Best friends are the sister of soul and keeper of heart.
Deep short friendship quotes
Friendship is hard to get and harder to maintain. It takes effort, care and loyalty, just like any other relationship. The following deep friendship quotes shed light on friendship and why it is so precious. Read on, and you may find a one-liner that represents you and your best friend.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is not built on promises but action.
Best friends make you laugh even when you can’t smile.
Best friends make hard things easier and good things better.
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
– Irish proverb
True friends are always together in spirit.
– L.M. Montgomery
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
– Sarah Dessen
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
– Aristotle
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
– Jim Henson
Friendship’s the wine of life.
– Edward Young
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
– Doug Larson
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
– Samuel Butler
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
– David Tyson
Each friend represents a world in us.
– Anais Nin
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
– Alice Walker
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. – Amos Bronson Alcott
The best mirror is an old friend.
– George Herbert
Friendship is a slow, ripening fruit.
– Aristotle
No friendship is an accident.
– O. Henry
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
– Joseph Parry
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
– Margaret Walker
True friends never leave you wondering whether you are friends or not.
Friendship is a two-way street.
Sometimes one person changes everything.
Funny short best friends quotes
Friends who laugh together stay together. If you and your friends share the same inside jokes and humor, these funny short friendship quotes are the perfect caption for your BFF selfies.
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
– Nicole Richie
Best friends are those who hate your ex more than you do.
True friends stab you in the front.
– Oscar Wilde
Best friends never let you do stupid things…alone.
Even the most boring nights are no longer boring when you are with your best friends.
Best friends are cheerleaders, therapists, and pizza-sharers.
When you can’t look at the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.
Real queens fix each other’s crowns.
True friends are those who come to your house, and you both just take a nap.
Which of these short friendship quotes resonate with you?
Share in the comments below, or tell me about your story with your best friend!
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