Friendship Poems

Friendship Quotes

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to." ~~ Carl Sandburg... Continue reading The Moon

"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." ~~ Lawrence J. Peter... Continue reading You can Always Tell a Real Friend

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of." ~~ Sarah Orne Jewett... Continue reading Old Friends Is Always Best

"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend." ~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes... Continue reading A Special Face For Each Friend

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and... Continue reading A Warm and Tender Hand

"When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man." ~~ Alice Duer Miller... Continue reading It Means a Man

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." ~~ Edward W. Howe... Continue reading When a Friend Is In Trouble

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is... Continue reading Every Language is Silent

"True friends stab you in the front." ~~ Oscar WIlde... Continue reading In The Front

"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... Continue reading The Real Test of Friendship

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." ~~ Henry David Thoreau... Continue reading Simply be His Friend

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." ~~ Henry David Thoreau... Continue reading The Language of Friendship

"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." ~~ Elbert Hubbard... Continue reading The Man Who Knows All About You

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts." ~~ Margaret Lee Runbeck... Continue reading What Counts

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind." ~~... Continue reading She is a Friend of Mind

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human." ~~ George Santayana... Continue reading One's Friends

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." ~~ Plautus... Continue reading Nothing But Heaven

"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends." ~~ Samuel Pepys... Continue reading A Spare Bed For My Friends

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces." ~~ Anne Morrow LIndburgh... Continue reading Men Kick Friendship Around Like a Football

"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference." ~~ Emil Ludwig... Continue reading Two Friends

"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... Continue reading When the Limo Breaks Down

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." ~~ John Leonard... Continue reading To Grow an Old Friend

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." ~~ Mignon McLaughlin... Continue reading It is Important to Our Friends

"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... Continue reading People Who Rekindle The Inner Spirit

"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 Duer Miller... Continue reading To Criticize Your Friends

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." ~~ George MacDonald... Continue reading Instead of a Gem, or Even a Flower

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." ~~ Plutarch... Continue reading My Shadow Does That Much Better

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." ~~ Katherine Mansfield... Continue reading Relief and Comfort of Friendship

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness." ~~ Dag Hammarskjold... Continue reading Friendship Needs No Words

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." ~~ C.S. Lewis... Continue reading Friendship is Unnecessary

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies. " ~~ Mencius... Continue reading One Mind in Two Bodies

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." ~~ Shirley MacLaine... Continue reading Strangers of People

"Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you." ~~ Alice Duer Miller... Continue reading Like Democracy and Freedom

"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings." ~~ Alice Duer Miller... Continue reading Contempt is The Weapon of The Weak

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." ~~ Thomas Jefferson... Continue reading But Friendship is Precious

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." ~~ George Washington... Continue reading Be Courteous to All, But Intimate With Few

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." ~~ Elbert Hubbard... Continue reading One Who Knows You

"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world." ~~... Continue reading Mother

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them." ~~ Francesco Guicciardini... Continue reading Never Lose a Chance

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." ~~ Arnold H. Glasow... Continue reading A True Friend Never Gets in Your Way

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson... Continue reading Choirs of His Friends

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson... Continue reading One of the Blessings of Old Friends

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world." ~~ Thomas A. Edison... Continue reading For The Favor of The Kings

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." ~~ Buddha... Continue reading An Insincere and Evil Friend

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." ~~ Pam Brown... Continue reading A Friendship Can Weather Most Things

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar." ~~ Robert Brault... Continue reading I Cherish The Friend

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." ~~ William Blake... Continue reading The Bird a Nest

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." ~~ Aristotle... Continue reading Friendship is a Slow Ripening Fruit

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." ~~ Saint Thomas Aquinas... Continue reading There is Nothing on This Earth

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." ~~ Muhammad Ali... Continue reading The Meaning of Friendship

"Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Footprints in Your Heart

"Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end."... Continue reading Everything is Okay in The End

"NOBODY IS PERFECT UNTIL YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Nobody Is Perfect

"What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?" ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading What Do You Do

"Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading You Never Know

"Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Good Friends Are Like Stars

"Friends are forever." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Friends are Forever

"True friendship never ends." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading True Friendship

"When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Look Beside You

"If you think that the world means nothing, think again. You might mean the world to someone else." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading You Might Mean the World

"A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Like a Four Leaf Clover

"Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might miss it." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Life's Short

"Don't let the past hold you back; you're missing the good stuff." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading You're Missing The Good Stuff

"The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading The Hardest Thing To Do

"Actions speak louder than words." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Louder Than Words

"You can only go as far as you push." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading As Far As You Push

"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Good Friends Are Hard to Find

"Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Don't Cry

"Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Love Starts With a Smile

"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own." ~~ Thomas Wilson... Continue reading Only By Friendship

"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends." ~~ Czech. Proverb... Continue reading By a Fence

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!" ~~ Doug Larson... Continue reading One Who Overlooks

"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error." ~~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton... Continue reading Evidences of Friendship

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi... Continue reading Quintessence of True Religion

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but .the silence of our friends." ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)... Continue reading The Silence of Our Friends

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." ~~ Sydney Smith... Continue reading The Greatest Happiness of Existence

"I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street." ~~ Virginia Woolf... Continue reading Lost Friends

"True 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... Continue reading A Plant of Slow Growth

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." ~~ Henry David Thoreau... Continue reading Language of Friendship

"Good friends are good for your health." ~~ Irwin Sarason... Continue reading Good For Your Health

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." ~~ Sicilian Proverb... Continue reading Only Your Real Friends

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." ~~ Samuel Paterson... Continue reading Few and Well Chosen

"It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter." ~~ Marlene Dietrich... Continue reading 4:00 A.M.

"Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Advice From Your Friends

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." ~~ Leo Buscaglia... Continue reading A Single Rose

"It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship." ~~ Mary Dixon Thayer... Continue reading Quality of Friendship

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality." ~~ Woodrow Wilson... Continue reading Terms of Equality

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." ~~ Len Wein... Continue reading There For You

"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship." ~~ Proverbs 24:26... Continue reading An Honest Answer

"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... Continue reading The Full Value of a Joy

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." ~~ Tehyi Hsieh... Continue reading By The Friends Whom We Choose

"A friend is a present you give yourself." -- Robert Louis Stevenson... Continue reading A Friend is a Present

"No man is useless while he has a friend." ~~ Robert Louis Stevenson... Continue reading No Man is Useless

"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom." ~~ William Penn... Continue reading No Friendship

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." ~~ Charles Peguy... Continue reading Genius Itself

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." ~~ Bernard Meltzer... Continue reading Make More Friends

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire." ~~ La Rochefoucauld (1665)... Continue reading The Greatest of All Blessings

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." ~~ La Rochefoucauld (1665)... Continue reading However Rare

"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... Continue reading Drop by Drop

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother." ~~ Homer (9th century B.C.)... Continue reading A Sympathetic Friend

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures." ~~ Kahil Gibran... Continue reading Let There Be Laughter

"Let your best be for your friend..." ~~ Kahil Gibran... Continue reading Your Best

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." ~~ Kahil Gibran.... Continue reading Purpose in Friendship

"Your friend is your needs answered." ~~ Kahil Gibran... Continue reading Your Needs Answered

"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private." ~~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol... Continue reading My Faults

"A good friend is my nearest relation." ~~ Thomas Fuller (1732)... Continue reading My Nearest Relation

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." ~~ Euripides (408 B.C.)... Continue reading One Loyal Friend

"Friends show their love in times of trouble..." ~~ Euripides (408 B.C.)... Continue reading In Times of Trouble

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need." ~~ Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)... Continue reading The Help of Our Friends

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson... Continue reading A Friend

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson... Continue reading Masterpiece of Nature

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson... Continue reading The Search After Friendship

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." ~~ Charles Caleb Colton (1825)... Continue reading True Friendship

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it." ~~ Cicero (44 B.C.)... Continue reading Friendship Makes Prosperity

"Friendship is Love without his wings!" ~~ Lord Byron (1806)... Continue reading Love Without His Wings

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." ~~ Eustace Budgell (1711)... Continue reading Good and Happiness

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself." ~~ James Boswell (1763)... Continue reading A Friend Loves

"A friend loves at all times." ~~ The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.... Continue reading At All Times

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." --... Continue reading Two Are Better Than One

"Friendship is essentially a partnership." -- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)... Continue reading Partnership

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." ~~ Aristotle (4th century B.C.)... Continue reading Wishing to be Friends

"The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so glad that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end." ~~ Robert Alan... Continue reading So Glad That You're My Friend

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends." ~~ Hillaire Belloc... Continue reading Love of Friends

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." ~~ Pietro Aretino (1537)... Continue reading Better Than Friendship

"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness." ~~ Lois L. Kaufman... Continue reading Plant a Seed of Friendship

"Count your age with friends but not with years." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Count Your Age

"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Song in My Heart

"Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief." ~~ Swedish proverb... Continue reading Friendship Doubles Our Joy

"Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow." ~~ Samuel Paterson... Continue reading Friends Are Needed

"One who looks for a friend without faults will have none." ~~ Hasidic Saying... Continue reading A Friend Without Faults

"The best mirror is an old friend." ~~ George Herbert... Continue reading The Best Mirror

"Friends are the sunshine of life." ~~ John Hay (1871)... Continue reading The Sunshine of Life

"Friendship needs no words..." ~~ Dag Hammarskjold.... Continue reading No Words

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." -- Baltasar Gracian (1647)... Continue reading Friendship Multiplies

"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try." ~~ Claude Mermet... Continue reading Friends Are Like Melons

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." ~~ Anonymous... Continue reading Leave Footprints on Our Hearts

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." ~~ Apocrypha... Continue reading A Faithful Friend

"Hold a true friend with both your hands." ~~ Nigerian Proverb... Continue reading Hold a True Friend

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." ~~ Abraham Lincoln... Continue reading Make Him a Friend

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson... Continue reading Have a Friend

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." ~~ Albert Camus... Continue reading Just Walk Beside Me and Be My Friend

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." ~~ Aristotle... Continue reading What Is a Friend?

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." ~~ Elbert Hubbard... Continue reading Your Friend

"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends." ~~ Cindy Lew... Continue reading The Greatest Gift

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." ~~ Fr. Jerome Cummings... Continue reading One Who Knows Us

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~~ Bernard Meltzer... Continue reading A Good Egg

"A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight." ~~ Unknown... Continue reading A Real Friend

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together." ~~ Unknown... Continue reading The Golden Thread

"I believe in angels, the kind Heaven sends. I am surrounded by angels, but I call them my best friends." ~~ Unknown... Continue reading Best Friends

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends." ~~ Walt Whitman... Continue reading Friends

"You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence." ~~ Psalm 16:11... Continue reading Psalm 16:11

"The best mirror is an old friend." ~~ Proverb... Continue reading An Old Friend

"The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them." ~~ John 15:13... Continue reading The Greatest Love

"A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out." ~~ Unknown... Continue reading A Friend Walks In

"Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant." ~~ Unknown... Continue reading Friendship is Clairvoyant

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us." ~~ Unknown... Continue reading God's Way

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone." ~~ George Eliot... Continue reading Golden Moments

"One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love." ~~ Leo Tolstoy... Continue reading How to Work and How to Love

"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." ~~ Epicurus... Continue reading Possession of Friendship

"Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours." ~~ Ludwig Van Beethoven... Continue reading Continue to be My Friend

"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." ~~ Oscar Wilde... Continue reading Sympathize With a Friend's Success

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." ~~ Euripides... Continue reading One Loyal Friend

"Love is friendship set on fire." ~~ Unknown... Continue reading Love is Friendship

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." ~~ Aristotle... Continue reading True Friends

"What is a Friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." ~~ Aristotle... Continue reading What is a Friend?

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." ~~ Abraham Lincoln... Continue reading Make Him a Friend

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." ~~ Henry David Thoreau... Continue reading Be True to Your Work

"Loneliness is the ultimate poverty." ~~ Abigail Van Buren... Continue reading Loneliness

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends." ~~ George Washington... Continue reading The Attachment of Friends

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." ~~ George Washington... Continue reading Associate with Men of Good Quality

"A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure." ~~ Louisa May Alcott... Continue reading A Faithful Friend

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, just as much to stand up to our friends." ~~ Albus Dumbledore, from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling... Continue reading A Great Deal of Bravery

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson... Continue reading Thanksgiving for My Friends

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~~ Marcel Proust... Continue reading People Who Make Us Happy

"The best mirror is an old friend." ~~ George Herbert... Continue reading The Best Mirror

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." ~~ Walter Winchell... Continue reading One Who Walks In

"My friends are my estate." ~~ Emily Dickinson... Continue reading My Estate

"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... Continue reading Each Friend Represents