Friendship quotes

" The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  "


" 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.  "

" Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  "


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


" Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.  "

" Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter.  I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front.  We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.  I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.  "


"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."


" The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.  "


" A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. "


" I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  "


" We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade."



" Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life."


" The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.  "


" There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.  "


" 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.  "


" Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. "


" It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. "

" Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend. "


" Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  "


" In my friend, I find a second self.  "


" A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.  Before him I may think aloud.  I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.  "


" Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. "


" Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  "