Making New Friends Quotes

• While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Air, New Friendship, Might

  Robert Hugh Benson (1912). “The Friendship of Christ”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

  Thomas Hughes

  Friendship, Thank You, Blessed

  "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

  99 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Friendship, Real Friends, Losing Friends

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

  91 Copy quote

  Show source

• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

  Thomas Hughes

  Blessed, Making Friends, New Friends

  "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

  10 Copy quote

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

  184 Copy quote

  Show source

• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Friendship, Fun, True Friend

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Good Morning, Meaningful

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 32), 1990.

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Friendship, Best Friend, Wise

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

  Devon Sawa

  People, Ensemble, Pieces

  7 Copy quote

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Friendship, Old Friends, Making Friends

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.53, Sarah Orne Jewett

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

  Thomas Browne

  Real, Circles, Sorrow

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence”, p.97

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

  Eminem

  Funny, Friends, Circles

  "Eminem: What I've Learned" by Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Journey, Knives

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.111, Oberon Books

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

  James Boswell

  Men, New Friends, He Man

  7 Copy quote

• Making new friends is tough. You don't really know who to trust when you're away from people that you love a lot.

  Selena Gomez

  People, Tough, New Friends

  "Gomez graduates to big screen". Interview with Dean Richards, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 1, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

  Allen Lacy

  Mean, Gardening, Common

  4 Copy quote

• But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.

  Rita Zahara

  Relationship, Shy, Outcomes

  5 Copy quote

• I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Genius, New Friends, Talent

  5 Copy quote

• I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, New Friends, New Things

  4 Copy quote

• I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

  Ariel Gore

  New Relationship, Irritated, New Friends

  5 Copy quote