Friendship Quotes

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lam
Thomas jefferson - but friendship is precious, not only in the...
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
Joseph addison - friendship improves happiness, and abates misery,...
Richard burton - false friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins...
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It? s not something you learn in school. But if you haven? t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven? t really learned anything.
Mohammad Ali, Newspaper, Daily Herald
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butle
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
Unknown
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell V. Delong
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
David Grayson
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust, The War with Catiline
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Unknown
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac