Friendship Quotes

Victor hugo, the hunchback of notre dame, chapter 13 - do you know what friendship is... it is to be...
Henry david thoreau - the language of friendship is not words, but...
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Breme
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
Unknown
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
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
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
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
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
C. C. Colton
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
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
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
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Cicero
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
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
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
Friendship demands attention.
Sir Thomas More
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates