--- title: "9 Friendship Thing Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 9 Friendship Thing quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Friendship Thing sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/340/tahereh-mafi-229_child_friendship-is-not-a-thing-i-have-ever-ex_975718.png" --- > [Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tahereh-mafi/friendship-is-not-a-thing-i-have-ever-experienced-not-as-a-child-and/) [Tahereh Mafi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tahereh-mafi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/340/tahereh-mafi-229_child_friendship-is-not-a-thing-i-have-ever-ex_975718.png) > [Friendship is not one but two thing 1 YOU 2 ME](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graceh/friendship-is-not-one-but-two-thing-1-you-2-me/) [\#graceH](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graceh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/graceh-81171_best-friend_friendship-is-not-one-but-two-thing-1-yo_1707158.jpg) > [Swag is just a Word. Friendship is the thing you need. Stay Together Thru everything, No matter what happends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/armin-ferizovic/swag-is-just-a-word-friendship-is-the-thing-you-need-stay-together/) [Armin Ferizovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/armin-ferizovic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f7/armin-ferizovic-25387_apology_swag-is-just-a-word-friendship-is-the-th_741266.jpg) > [Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/friendship-is-a-thing-most-necessary-to-life-since-without-friends-no/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/167/aristotle-78_advantage_friendship-is-a-thing-most-necessary-to_2151338.png) > [I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-simon/i-would-be-willing-to-do-almost-anything-to-make-art-happy-i-care/) [Paul Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-simon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cf/paul-simon-1703_art_i-would-be-willing-to-do-almost-anything_124110.png) > [“I vale friendship above every thing I care for my friends more then I do my own family sometimes”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pikmin100xx/i-vale-friendship-above-every-thing-i-care-for-my-friends-more-then-i/) [pikmin100xx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pikmin100xx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/580/pikmin100xx-71063_friendship_i-vale-friendship-above-every-thing-i-ca_708511.jpg) > [Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/friendship-is-the-only-thing-in-the-world-concerning-the-usefulness/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/anonymous-1_friendship_friendship-is-the-only-thing-in-the-worl_1428234.jpg) > [I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-myles/i-hate-the-word-mentor-the-professionalization-of-friendships-between/) [Eileen Myles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-myles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/eileen-myles-21151_facts_i-hate-the-word-mentor-the-professionali_568428.jpg) > [“Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. Except. One month…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tahereh-mafi/friendship-is-not-a-thing-i-have-ever-experienced-not-as-a-child-and-2/) [Tahereh Mafi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tahereh-mafi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35f/tahereh-mafi-229_children_friendship-is-not-a-thing-i-have-ever-ex_1040899.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friendship-thing/#itemlist", "name": "Friendship Thing Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. 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