Friend Quotes

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.

– Shel Silverstein

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

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

– David Tyson

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

– Gloria Naylor

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

– Arnold H. Glasgow

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

– Washington Irving

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

– Charles Kingsley