Friendship Quotes

Saint teresa of avila - for prayer is nothing else than being on terms of...
George santayana - friends need not agree in everything or go always...
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lam
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 based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome, Lette
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It? s not something you learn in school. But if you haven? t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven? t really learned anything.
Mohammad Ali, Newspaper, Daily Herald
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
Christine Leefeldt
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 like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butle
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
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
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
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
Friendship is love with understanding.
Author Unknown
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust, The War with Catiline
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.
Albert Camus
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.
William James
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932