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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

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On Friendship: Quotes About the Bonds That Hold Us Together

Feb 26, 2026 · 5 min read

A great friendship is an act of grace. It asks nothing but gives everything. These quotes capture what it means to have someone who sees you clearly and loves you anyway.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard Attributed

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

C.S. Lewis The Four Loves (1960)

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth Foley Attributed

Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.

Anonymous Widely shared

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Salman Rushdie Attributed

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell Attributed

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

Woodrow Wilson Attributed

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey Attributed

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils.

Baltasar Gracián The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Friendship is not about who you have known the longest — it's about who walked into your life and said 'I'm here for you.'

Anonymous Widely shared

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

Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides Orestes

Don't walk in front of me — I may not follow. Don't walk behind me — I may not lead. Walk beside me — just be my friend.

Albert Camus Attributed

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Donna Roberts Attributed