Friendship has a way of making life a little brighter. There are the best friends who know every version of you, the childhood friends who remember where it all began, the long-distance friends who make the miles feel smaller, and the unexpected friendships that somehow turn into family.
The best friendship quotes capture those relationships in words—whether they make you laugh, bring back a favorite memory, or remind you just how lucky you are to have certain people in your life. Sometimes, a few simple words are all it takes to tell a friend, I appreciate you, I’m here for you, and I’m so glad we found each other.
Below, you’ll find 110 quotes about friendship for every kind of connection, from sweet and funny best friend quotes to thoughtful, meaningful friendship quotes about loyalty, love, distance, and growing through life together.
Table of Contents
- Best Friend Quotes
- Short Friendship Quotes
- Meaningful Friendship Quotes
- True Friendship Quotes
- Cute Friendship Quotes
- Funny Friendship Quotes
- Deep Friendship Quotes
- Friendship Appreciation Quotes
Best Friend Quotes
1. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
2. “There is nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” — Jennifer Aniston
3. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
4. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
5. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “Friends are the family you choose.” — Jess C. Scott
7. “A good friend is a connection to life—a tie to the past, a road to the future.” — Lois Wyse
8. “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” — Charles Caleb Colton
9. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Kahlil Gibran
10. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” — Linda Grayson
11. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides
12. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
13. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia
14. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” — Henry Ford
Short Friendship Quotes
15. “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
16. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau
17. “Friendship is the wine of life.” — Edward Young
18. “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracián
20. “Life is nothing without friendship.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
21. “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” — Eustace Budgell
22. “No friendship is an accident.” — O. Henry
23. “A friend is a gift you give yourself.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
24. “Friendship needs no words.” — Dag Hammarskjöld
25. “Friends are born, not made.” — Henry Adams
26. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
27. “True friends are always together in spirit.” — L. M. Montgomery
28. “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” — Jane Austen
Meaningful Friendship Quotes
29. “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
30. “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
31. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
32. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
33. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” — Elbert Hubbard
34. “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
35. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
36. “The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” — Abraham Lincoln
37. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
38. “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
39. “Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.” — Augustine Birrell
40. “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” — Herodotus
41. “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” — John Evelyn
True Friendship Quotes
43. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” — Barbara Kingsolver
44. “A faithful friend is a strong defense; and he that hath found him hath found a treasure.” — Louisa May Alcott
45. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” — Socrates
46. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides
47. “The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” — David Storey
48. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” — Epicurus
49. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasow
50. “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” — Aristotle
52. “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” — John Leonard
53. “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” — Henry David Thoreau
54. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” — Henry David Thoreau
55. “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” — Aristotle
56. “Friendship is essentially a partnership.” — Aristotle
Cute Friendship Quotes
57. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
58. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” — A. A. Milne
59. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
60. “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” — Sylvia Plath
61. “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” — William Shakespeare
62. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
63. “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” — Markus Zusak
64. “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” — William Butler Yeats
65. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich
66. “There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” — Henry Ward Beecher
67. “I get by with a little help from my friends.” — John Lennon and Paul McCartney
68. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” — Jim Morrison
69. “Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.” — Herman Melville
70. “There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.” — Unknown
Funny Friendship Quotes
71. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” — Linda Grayson
72. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell—you see, I have friends in both places.” — Mark Twain
74. “An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.” — Jim Hayes
75. “Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.” — Edwin Arlington Robinson
76. “The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” — Jay McInerney
77. “You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” — Laurence J. Peter
78. “A true friend stabs you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
79. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker
80. “Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families.” — Unknown
81. “We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.” — A. A. Milne
82. “Only a true friend would be that truly honest.” — Donkey, Shrek
83. “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” — Samuel Butler
84. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
Deep Friendship Quotes
85. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle
86. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school.” — Muhammad Ali
87. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.” — James Boswell
89. “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
90. “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.” — Rabindranath Tagore
91. “There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.” — Socrates
92. “Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” — Chelsea Handler
94. “A friend is, as it were, a second self.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
95. “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” — Thomas Aquinas
96. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” — Elie Wiesel
97. “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli
98. “Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” — Alexandre Dumas
Friendship Appreciation Quotes
