Friendship Quotes

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Colette, the pure and the impure, 1932 - it is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness...
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Charles spurgeon - friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life....
Ralph waldo emerson - the glory of friendship is not the outstretched...
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Clive Staples Lewis
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
Eugene Kennedy
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.
E. R. Hazlip
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
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.
William Hazlitt
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
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 often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.
Charles Caleb Colton
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
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
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylo
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
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
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
George Jean Nathan
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
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 precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson