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
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it’s the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
Author Unknown
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubard
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
I get by with a little help from my friends.
John Lennon
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
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristophanes c.444-c.380 B.C. In Diogenes Laertius ‘Lives of Eminent Philosophers’ bk. 5, sect. 20