Friendship Quotes

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake

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

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

Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.
- Sare and Cate

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

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.
- Edith Wharton

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Menclus