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Quotes celebrating friendship and the friends who feel like family. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest friendship quotes ever written — from Epicurus, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

— Epicurus

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

— Walt Whitman

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

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.

Brothers are what best friends can never be.

My friends are my estate.

— Emily Dickinson

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

— Aristotle

Get well soon so we can resume our regularly scheduled nonsense.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.

— Irish Blessing

We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

— Lewis Carroll

A brother is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit.

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

— Albert Camus

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

— Helen Keller

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

— Leo Buscaglia

A mother is your first home, your first love, your first friend.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

— C. S. Lewis

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.

— A. A. Milne

Man is by nature a social animal.

— Aristotle

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.

— Dalai Lama

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

— Cicero

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

— A. A. Milne

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

— Charles Dickens

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

— Christina Rossetti

Brothers are playmates in the beginning and best friends for life.

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.

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