Friendship is a relationship of equals.

Friends are people with whom we have common interests. They’re people whose company we enjoy. If they called us at 3 am because they were in trouble, they’re the people we’d go out of our way to help.

In short; they’re people who really matter to us.

If you have one true friend, a real pal, then you’re lucky. If you have two, then you’re rich indeed.

Don’t make the mistake of assuming you have lots of friends. No one does. Not really.

Whilst you may be on good terms with lots of people, how many would be there with you shoulder-to-shoulder if you were in serious trouble?

Real friends will be there for your no matter what. Everyone else in your life is just people you know with varying degrees of familiarity.

Genuine friendship is truly a precious gift.

So appreciate your real friends and let them know how much they mean to you.

Here are 25 thought-provoking quotes about friendship, to make you think and to remind you that having friends is really what makes life bearable. They’re the family you get to choose.

We are social animals and we need other people. And the best people are the people we call friends. They’re the ones with whom we choose to spend our time.

Quotes about friendship (1-15):

1. Friends are the family you choose. ~Jess C. Scott
2. Friends are the siblings God never gave us. ~Mencius
3. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ~Euripides
4. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ~Samuel Butler
5. It’s the friends you can call up at 4.00 am that matters. ~Marlene Dietrich
6. You cannot buy with gold the old associations. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau
8. Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ~Aristotle
9. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~Khalil Gibran
10. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ~Elbert Hubbard
11. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ~Woodrow Wilson
12. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ~Walter Winchell
13. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ~Socrates
14. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ~David Tyson Gentry
15. Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. ~Alexander Dumas

Quotes about friendship (16-25):

16. Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks. ~Waqar Ahmed
17. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
18. A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile. ~Author Unknown
19. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
20. 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
21. 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. ~Robert Breault
22. 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
23. 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
24. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last, a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ~Ray Bradbury
25. 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

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