Friendship Quotes

Saint teresa of avila - for prayer is nothing else than being on terms of...
Henry david thoreau - the language of friendship is not words but...
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
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author Unknown
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
Golda Mei
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
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
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
C. Neil Strait
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
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 born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Clive Staples Lewis
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
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
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 growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship demands attention.
Sir Thomas More
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
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warne
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
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
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
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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 is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
Dean Koontz
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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