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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.

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

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

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

Anonymous Widely shared
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

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

Walter Winchell Attributed
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Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

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

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

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

Baltasar Gracián The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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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
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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

Donna Roberts Attributed