One Liner Quotes on Friendship
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I love coming up with cheesy quotes from shows and movies to put in cards and emails. Life goes so quick but it is still a good idea to put together a nice quotes list. Here are some One Liner Quotes on Friendship items I have now:
- Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Oliver Goldsmith
- Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. Amy Poehler
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
- “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie the Pooh
- The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. Rachel Naomi Remen
- Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget. G. Randolf
- “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
- The love of my life is the love between friends.
- The difference between "Girlfriend" and "Girl Friend" is that little space in between we call the "Friend Zone".
- Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. Anna Cummins
- “How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. 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
- We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall I will pick you up after I finish laughing.
- Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never. Charles Caleb Colton
- “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
- Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. Charles Eastman
- The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
- Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad.
- My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson
- Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell
- My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of. Jodie Foster
- The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people. Nicholas Sparks
- Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. Sarah Dessen
- Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. Charlotte Bronte
- Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. Lord Byron
- “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. Samuel Johnson
- Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good. Pope John Paul II
- A friend is what the heart needs all the time. Henry Van Dyke
- If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever. Alfred Tennyson
- One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine. Matshona Dhliwayo
- “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart… I'll always be with you.” – Winnie the Pooh
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. Aristotle
- 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
- You give me Epsilon, I give you Delta. Together, we find limits.
- Friends are the family that you choose.
- Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- World is full of smiles, whenever friends are with me.
- A friend is like a book: you don't need to read all of them, just pick the best ones.
- Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel
- Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
- Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. George Eliot
- What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. C. S. Lewis
- Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James F. Byrnes
- “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”’ – Socrates
- Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.
- “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
- I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman
- The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
- Life without friendship is like the sky without sun.
- Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
- Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.
- A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
- I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me. Toni Morrison
- The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Sophie Swetchine
- Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Francis Bacon
- Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King Jr
- Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. George Eliot
- Friends are the family you choose. Unknown
- The best mirror is an old friend.
- Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. Elbert Hubbard
- Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. Georgia O’Keeffe
- A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Saint Francis de Sales
- Sorry I just saw your text from last night, are you guys still at the restaurant.
- Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
- In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart. Cicero
- “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
- The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume
- A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott
- — Dale Carnegie
- I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln
- A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore
- It's not peer pressure, it's just your turn.
- Friendships are discovered rather than made. Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.
- We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. Arthur Ashe
- If you had friends like mine, you'd be the luckiest guy in the world!
- A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
- The older I get the more selective I am of who is in my tribe. I would rather have four quarters than a hundred pennies.
- As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen. Winnie The Pooh
- How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. Kahlil Gibran
- A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. Jim Morrison
- — Audrey Hepburn
- “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
- The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. Winnie The Pooh
- Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. Booker T. Washington
- “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown
- Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it. Unknown
- Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey
- Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. Rowan Williams
- “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” – Ally Condie
- Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Thomas Aquinas
- A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
- Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. Octavia Butler
- Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left. Paulo Coelho
- We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh? asked Piglet. Even longer. Pooh answered. Winnie The Pooh
- Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. Dorothy Parker
- It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius
- Your friend is your needs answered. Kahlil Gibran
- I get by with a little help from my friends. The Beatles
- We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. Ray Bradbury
- Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine
- The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. Cicero
- Between friends, words are optional.
- However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain
- Love is friendship on fire. Susan Sontag
- You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie
- There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. William Hazlitt
- This is my beloved and this is my friend. Song of Solomon
- Best friends make good times better and hard times easier!
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf
- My wife says I can join your gang but I have to be home by 9.
- 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. Anais Nin
- A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen. Winnie The Pooh
- Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau
- He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt
- Love everyone with a deep love based on charity, but form friendships only with those who can share virtuous things with you. The higher the virtues you share and exchange with others, the more perfect your friendship will be. St. Francis de Sales
- The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
- Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
- In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
- “The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” – Eugene Kennedy
- Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much more for them.
- 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
- Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. Anna Deavere Smith
- “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” – George Santayana
- The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
- Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. Confucius
- To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. Theodore H. White
- We cannot hope to only leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend. George H. W. Bush
- My buddy set me up on a blind date & said, "Heads up, she's expecting a baby." Felt like an idiot sitting in the bar wearing just a diaper.
- I'm changing my name to 'Benefits' on Facebook. Next time someone adds me, It will say "you are now friends with Benefits."
- There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met. William Butler Yeats
- Occasionally, a true friend gives his paw not his hand...
- When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. Aristotle
- “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
- I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends… they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights. Oscar Levant
- Man’s best support is a very dear friend. Cicero
- Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin
- One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. Clifton Fadiman
- Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville
- If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. Alice Miller
- I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. Jon Katz
- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins
- Friendship is love minus sex plus reason: Love is friendship plus sex minus reason.
- The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle
- I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller
- There are small ships and big ships but the best ships are friendships.
- “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
- A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.
- Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Kahlil Gibran
- ‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Amos Bronson Alcott
- The best cure for a bad day is a good friend.
- The friendship of one intelligent man is better than that of all the unintelligent. Democritus
- It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran
- True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.
- “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
- Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. Herodotus
- The verb ‘to love’ in Persian is ‘to have a friend’. ‘I love you’ translated literally is ‘I have you as a friend’. Shusha Guppy
- You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi
- If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child. Henry Ward Beecher
- “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
- My best mates and I played a game of hiding and seek. It went on for hours... Well, good friends are hard to find.
- “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
- There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher
- True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau
- Taking my husband's last name doesn't mean I'm not a feminist it means I don't want anyone I went to high school with to be able to find me ever again.
- A tree house is the biggest insult to a tree. "Here, I killed your friend. Hold him."
- True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
- 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
- There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
- “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway
- The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before he comes over.
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. Charles Caleb Colton
- There cannot be friendship without equality. Swami Sivananda
- “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “ – Leo F. Buscaglia
- The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert H. Humphrey
- Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. Alexander Dumas
- No one will ever be as entertained by us as us.