Who doesn’t know the language of friendship? From our childhood, till old age, all of us build many types of connection with different people and call them our friends. They might fall under diverse categories like kindergarten friends, school friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, neighborhood friends, college friends, our spouse’s friends, or work friends etc. As a human being, it is our basic instinct to connect with others and care for them.
After all, we all crave that special bond where we can speak without thinking and open our hearts without worrying about what the other person will think about us. Here we have come up with the best small collection of short friendship quotes. Whether you are a social butterfly with groups of friends or an introvert who keeps his/her friendship circle narrow, we hope you will find the one that matches your personality. And because the quotes are so short, they are great for texting to your friends. Check them out.
Short Quotes about Friendship:
1.“A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find, lucky to have.” – Unknown
2.“As your best friend I’ll always pick you up when you fall, after I finish laughing.” – Unknown
3.“Never let your best friends get lonely.. keep disturbing them.” – Unknown
4.“Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.” – Unknown
5.“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
6.“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” – Herodotus
7.“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
8.“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
9.“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
10.“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
11.“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
12.“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13.“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr
14.“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
15.“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
16.“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
17.“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson
18.“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson
19.“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
20.“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
21.“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” – ean de La Fontaine
22.“Friends are the best to turn to when you’re having a rough day.” – Justin Bieber
23.“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
24.“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
25.“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” – Charles R. Swindoll
26.“Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.” – Henry David Thoreau
27.“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
28.“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
29.“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Henry Van Dyke
30.“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.” – Rabindranath Tagore
31.“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” – Thomas Fuller
32.“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Baltasar Gracian
33.“I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship.” – Harbhajan Singh
34.“I have learned that friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who came and never left your side.”- Yolanda Hadid
35. “No friendship is an accident.”- O. Henry
36.”Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”- Elie Wiesel
37.”Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.” – Unknown
38.”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
39.”Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehle
40.”Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends.” – Unknown
41.”A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare
42.”The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez
43.”Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde
44.”Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
45.”In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr
46.”It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
47.”Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
48.”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
49.”There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” – Sylvia Plath
50.”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
51.”A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” – Unknown
52.”There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
53.”When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.” – Diane von Furstenburg
54.”There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” – Jane Austen
55.”Only a true friend would be that truly honest.” – Shrek
56.”Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – WaqarWaqar Ahmed
57.”Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” – Socrates
58.”Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolfe
59.”I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was .” – Stand by Me
60.”True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
61.”I get by with a little help from my friends.” – The Beatles
62.”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. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” – Jim Morrison
63.”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
64.”Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” – C.J. Langenhoven
65.”A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.” – Unknown
66.”We’ll be friend ’til we’re old and senile. … Then we’ll be new friends!” – Unknown
67.”A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.” – Unknown
68.”You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing.” – E.B. White
69.”The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley
70.”There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
71.”A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills
72.”Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had. I’ve been with you such a long time. You’re my sunshine and I want you to know, that my feelings are true. I really love you. Oh you’re my best friend” – Queen
73.”Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” – Anna Taylor
74.”If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time … then see who sticks around.” – Karen Salmonsohn
75.”The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
76.”Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” – N.R. Hart
77.”A true friend is someone who will always love you – the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.” – R. J. L.
78.”The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
79.”A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle
80.”Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli
81.”In my friend, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton
82.“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
83.“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” – Unknown
84.“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.” – Unknown
85.“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” – Unknown
86.“Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.” – Unknown
87.“That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.” – Unknown
88.“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
89.“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Unknown
90.“Best friends share laughs, memories and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart.” – Unknown
91.“A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.” – Unknown
92.“F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.” – Unknown
93.“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief andbereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
94.“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” – Mencius
95.“Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.” – Unknown
96.“True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when your facing problems.” – Unknown
97.“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas
98.“Friendship is essentially a partnership.” – Aristotle
99.“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.” – William Hazlitt
100.“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell
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Friends are the spice of life. They identify with our past, believe in our future and accept us just the way we are. A true friend is not the one who understands your worries when you speak. It is the one who will understand your concern even before you say a single word. Friends are the family we choose.
They are not related to us by blood and yet just by being there, they make us feel supported and cared about. Blessed are the ones who have such friends by their side. We hope that you liked reading these short friendship quotes and it will make you cherish such people in your life. Text one to a friend today and use them to build connections with your social circle!
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