Famous Friendship Quotations, Quotes, and Sayings

Searching for some famous friendship quotes to celebrate that special and trustworthy friend in your life?

Here are some of our favorite quotes from The Love Quotes Encyclopedia.

Lay your troubles on my shoulder, put your worries in my pocket. Rest your love on me a while.(UNKNOWN AUTHOR)

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud(RALPH WALDO EMERSON )

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 )

For all the times I never said what I should have, I thank you for all the times you understood.(UNKNOWN AUTHOR)

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.(MARK TWAIN )

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN )

A woman cannot love a man she feels to be her inferior; Love without veneration and enthusiasm is only friendship! (GEORGE SAND )

A true friend stabs you in the front.(From the movie CAN'T HARDLY WAIT)

The bird a nest, the spider a web,man friendship.(WILLIAM BLAKE )

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter(JAMES FENIMORE COOPER )

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, And whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer: Commend her among her female acquaintances(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN )

It's like some people just come through our lives To bring us something, a gift, a blessing, A lesson we need to learn, And that's why they're here....(From the book THE GIFT by DANIELLE STEEL)

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.(SALLUST )