Quotes to Celebrate Friendship Day

True friendship stands the test of time. You might be separated by geographical boundaries and distances. But when your best friend calls, you can transcend any physical or mental boundary.

Childhood friends have a special bond with you. They knew you before you became worldly wise, were there in your childhood and teenage years and knew your family. They share your past. Friends you make as an adult see the full blooming of your soul, wit, and heart and are friends in many dimensions. They celebrate your highs and are there to sympathize with your lows.

Friendship, like any other relationship, requires care and attention. On Friendship Day, strengthen your friendship with your close buddies. In the spirit of the festival, exchange a token of love share a meaningful quote and raise a toast to a wonderful bond. 

Mary Catherwood

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet, and two others at first speech are old friends."

C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."

Claude Mermet

"Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Friendship needs no words."

John Evelyn

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."

Pietro Aretino

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Robert Alan

"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."

Lord Byron

" Friendship is love without his wings."

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."

Kahil Gibran

"Your friend is your needs answered."
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

Eustace Budgell

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."

Charles Peguy

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Mary Dixon Thayer

"It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude and amending the error."

Cindy Lew

"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends."