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A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. ―Walter Winchell |
Here are the best short loyal friend quotes. Short quotes and sayings about true friendship. Beautiful words about a loyal friend. Sayings of philosophers and famous people about my best friend.
Best short quotes about friends
- “A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” ―Walter Winchell
- “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend” ― Aristotle
- “No friendship is an accident” ― O. Henry
- “The best mirror is an old friend” ― George Herbert
- “Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend” ― Bill Watterson
- “Friendship is the wine of life” ― Edward Young
- “A friend to all is a friend to none” ― Aristotle
- “To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away” ― Sophocles
- “Friendship is love without wings” ― George Gordon Byron
- “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods” ― Aristotle
- “A friend is a gift you give yourself” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
- “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate” ― Linda Grayson
- “True friendship can exist only between equals” ― Plato
- “A friend is what the heart needs all the time” ― Henry Van Dyke
- “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend” ― Sarah Dessen
- “Friendship is another word for love” ― Unknown
- “It takes a long time to grow an old friend” ― John Leonard
- “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing” ― Benjamin Franklin
- “All you need to do to be my friend is like me” ― Taylor Swift
- “A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself” ― Frances Ward Weller
- “The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings” ― Henry David Thoreau
- “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives” ― Euripides
- “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies” ― Richelle Mead
- “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected” ― Charles Lamb
- “How delightful to find a friend in everyone” ― Joseph Brodsky
- “True friends stab you in the front” ― Oscar Wilde
- “Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly” ― William Shakespeare
- “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies” ― Aristotle
- “Friends are the siblings God never gave us” ― Mencius
- “However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship” ― Albert Einstein
- “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend” ― Henry David Thoreau
- “Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends” ― Shirley MacLaine
- “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it” ― Hubert H. Humphrey
- “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious” ― Herodotus
- “Talk between women friends is always therapy...” ― Jayne Anne Phillips
- “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil” ― Baltasar Gracian
- “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself” ― Jim Morrison
- “Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day” ― Justin Bieber
- “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship” ― Markus Zusak
- “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face” ― Maya Angelou
- “Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends” ― H. Jackson Brown
- “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance” ― Rabindranath Tagore
- “Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend” ― Plautus
- “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life” ― Mark Twain
- “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit” ― Aristotle
- “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you” ― Elbert Hubbard
- “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find” ― William Shakespeare
- “Unreal friendship may turn to real. But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended” ― T.S. Eliot
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me” ― Henry Ford
- “True friends are always together in spirit” ― L.M. Montgomery
- “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families” ― Jay McInerney
- “A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world” ― Leo Buscaglia
- “There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met” ― Jim Henson
- “A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth” ― Charles Darwin
- “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down” ― Arnold H. Glasow
- “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ― Abraham Lincoln
- “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- “Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you” ― John Steinbeck
- “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter” ― Marlene Dietrich
- “Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself” ― Confucius
- “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend” ― King Solomon
- “The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant” ― Socrates
- “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel” ― Doris Lessing
- “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts” ― Sarah Dessen
- “Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard” ― Walter Dean Myers
- “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier” ― Diane Von Furstenberg
- “Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go” ― Margaret Walker
- “The better part of one's life consists of his friendships” ― Abraham Lincoln
- “Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary” ― Amos Bronson Alcott
- “Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best” ― John Webster
- “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship” ― Thomas Aquinas
- “If you have one true friend you have more than your share” ― Thomas Fuller
- “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met” ― William Butler Yeats
- “Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation” ― Tennessee Williams
- “You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away” ― Anthony Horowitz
- “You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal” ― Elizabeth Taylor