Friendship Quotes, Sayings about friends

I would rather take bullets for my friends because our relatives may be the one shooting us from the dark.

Submitted by Elise Loh.

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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Robert Lynd

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
- David Tyson Gentry

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- La Rochefoucauld

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
- Kahil Gibran

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
- Hillaire Belloc

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
- Epicurus

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- Cicero

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Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
- Cindy Lew

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
- James Boswell

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
- Blaise Pascal

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
- Madame Tencin

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
- Samuel Johnson

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
- Proverb

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Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

A friend loveth at all times.
- Proverb

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In a friend you find a second self.
- Isabelle Norton

Good friends are good for your health.
- Irwin Sarason

We need not think alike to love alike.
- Francis David

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
- David Hume

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
- Lois McMaster Bujold