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Only the truest friends stick by us through thick and thin. And words often fall short to describe our most amazing partners in crime. Some people have described friendship with the most meaningful of words. Since friends are the greatest treasures we can have, share these beautiful quotes on friendship with them to let them know how much you value them.

#1 There would be many things to follow, as our friendship has many things. And so much of them reminds me of the happiness our friendship brings. – Julie Hebert

#2 “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran

#3 “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver

#4 Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. – La Fontaine

#5 “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde

#6 “Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.” – Augustine Birrell

#7 “I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”– Katherine Mansfield

#8 A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” – Winnie the Pooh

#9 “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis

#10 “Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”– Dorothy Parker

#11 “If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.” – Oprah Winfrey

#12 “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”– Markus Zusak

#13 “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”– Woodrow Wilson

#14 “Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.”– Anonymous

#15 “Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington