Friendship Quotes

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
Joseph addison - the friendships of the world are oft...
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
Sallust, the war with catiline - to like and dislike the same things, that is...
Eustace budgell - friendship is a strong and habitual inclination...
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.
E. R. Hazlip
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
George Santayana
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Unknown
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust
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.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
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
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome, Lette
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.
Albert Camus
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
C. C. Colton
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Cicero