37 Quotes About Lasting Friendship

There are various individuals to which we can encounter that can result in a long lasting friendship. Building strong connections and relationships can be difficult. Here are some great quotes about lasting friendships that serve as just one example the type of bonds you can create.

“A friend you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay for him.”

“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”

“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”

“Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.”

“Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

“Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it’s more fun with someone who really likes it.”

“Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.”

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

“Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.”

“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

“No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.”

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”

“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”

“That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same mean must be approved by both.”

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

“The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.”

“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.”

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

“To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.”

“True friends are always together in spirit.”

“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”

“True friendship is never serene.”

“Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.”

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.”

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”

There are a few essential truths to maintaining the right friendships in your life.