The Top 50+ of the Best Quotes On Friendship

In this post, I’m excited to share some of my favourite quotes on friendship. Each one speaks to a different aspect of what it means to be a good friend, and I hope they resonate with you as much as they have with me. As you read through them, take a moment to think about the friends who’ve had a lasting impact on your life, and maybe even share one of these quotes with them.

Best Quotes on Friendship about Old Friends:

1. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
2. “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
3. “The most important discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
4. “I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, ‘Hey, you can do this,’ put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!” – Reese Witherspoon
5. “I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgement in any way.” – Emma Watson
6. “Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
7. “Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend.” – Sarah Dessen
8. “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don’t have to make it official. It just is.” – Mindy Kaling
9. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.” – Ally Condie
10. “You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.” – Lyle Lovett
11. “‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb
12. “How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.” – Shel Silverstein

Best Quotes on Friendship about its Value:

1. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buechner
2. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
3. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson
4. “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
5. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
6. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson
7. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” – Winnie the Pooh

Best Quotes on Friendship about its Meaning:

1. “True friends are great riches.” – Unknown
2. “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life – and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” – Dean Koontz
3. “Friendship is a sheltering tree;” Samuel – Taylor Coleridge
4. “A true friend is forever a friend.” – George MacDonald
5. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach
6. “One good friendship will outlive forty average loves.” – Unknown
7. “To friendship every burden’s light.” – Aesop
8. “And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel
9. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” – Unknown
10. “A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.” – Unknown
11. “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” – Josh Grayson

Best Quotes on Friendship about its Lasting Bond:

1. “True friendship is a plant of slow growth…” – George Washington
2. “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;” – Joseph Addison
4. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
5. “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.” – Kristin Hannah
6. “If you live to be a 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie the Pooh
7. “A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” – Lois Wyse
8. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” – Edward Young
9. “Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better.” – Unknown
10. “My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” – George R.R. Martin
11. “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.” – Kristin Hannah

Best Quotes on Friendship to Treasure your Relationships:

1. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” – G. Randolf
2. “I always say, Lorelei Lee got it wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure, and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.” – Gina Barreca
3. “For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die – and that people die for.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
4. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf
5. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown
6. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” – S.E. Hinton
7. “What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there’s nothing left between you, that you’ve hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves.” – Colette McBeth

Best Quotes on Friendship for your Best Friend:

1. “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.” – Anaïs Nin
2. “There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” – Henry Ford
3. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – ’I’m Going to Go Back There Someday’ from The Muppet Movie
4. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau
5. “No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry
6. “[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.” – Hubert Humphrey
7. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” – Jane Austen
8. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” – G. Randolf
9. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Helen Keller
10. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunngiham

And that concludes our list of Quotes on Friendship.