Friendship Quotes
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 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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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 the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.John Evelyn
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.Albert Camus
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
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 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
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.E. R. Hazlip
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 friendship that can cease has never been real.Saint Jerome, Lette
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.Charles Lam
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.Carmen Sylva
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.C. C. Colton
A hedge between keeps friendship green.German Prove
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.Unknown
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Jeremy Taylo
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Socrates
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
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
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.Samuel Johnson
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
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.Chiam Potok, The Chosen
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.Charlotte Bronte
