Friendship Quotes
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
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
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
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is love with understanding.Author Unknown
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.C. Neil Strait
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.Sallust, The War with Catiline
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
The holy passion of Friendship is 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
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
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.Clive Staples Lewis
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
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.Mortimer Adle
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.George Santayana
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.Hubert Humphrey
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
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
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
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
