Best Friend Quotes

• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb

• Value your friendship. Value your relationships. Barbara Bush

• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better. Plutarch

• It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. Theophile Gautier

• I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different. Emma Bunton

• 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

• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. Greg Bear

• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana

• Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. Judy Holliday

• No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Robert Southey

• Sometimes, sweet message for a friend to make her smile can make huge difference.

• Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Francis Bacon

• Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. George Herbert

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe

• True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde

• Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Aristotle

• Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine

• 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. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. Augustine Birrell

• My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. Tom Lehrer

• 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 G. Bulwer-Lytton

• The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau

• Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. Truman Capote

• But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right. Ernie Banks

• If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. Eve Arnold

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles

• A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller

• Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Plautus

• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. Len Wein

• 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 silent and holds its peace in impotence. Joseph Roux

• Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. Virginia Woolf

• If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton

• Opposition is true friendship. William Blake

• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas

• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen

• 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

• The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. William Shenstone

• In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. Tony Garza

• If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Marie de France

• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran

• 006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters. Sean Bean

• Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades. Carmen Sylva

• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Friendship and money: oil and water. Mario Puzo

• Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson