Best Friendship Quotes

Best Friendship Quotes

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

-Jay Leno

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

-John Churton Collins

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

-John Green

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

-Joseph Addison

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

-L. M. Montgomery

An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point.

-Laura Moncur

However difficult it is to be the homely friend of a reputed beauty, there are certain benefits. Most days, the humiliation of being the second choice is outweighed by the overflow of disappointed gentlemen.

-Laura Moncur

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

-Laura Moncur

You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.

-Laura Moncur

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

-Lawana Blackwell

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

-Lois McMaster Bujold

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

-Lois McMaster Bujold

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

-Lois McMaster Bujold

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

-Madame de Tencin

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

-Mark Twain

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

-Marlene Dietrich

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” 

-Aristotle

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” 

-Arnold H. Glasow

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best of me.” 

-Henry Ford

“Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.” 

-Belgicia Howell