Friendship Quotes
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.Nigerian Prove
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
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
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
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
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.George Eliot
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.Samuel Butle
Friendship demands attention.Sir Thomas More
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
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
The friendship that can cease has never been real.Saint Jerome, Lette
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
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.Blaise Pascal
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.C. C. Colton
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.Saint Basil
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.Joseph Parry
A hedge between keeps friendship green.German Prove
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.Mortimer Adle
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.Thomas Jefferson
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
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
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.Francois Mauriac
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.Francis Bacon
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.Randolph Silliman Bourne
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.Sylvia Breme
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.Thomas Jefferson
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.Sophocles
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.John Evelyn
