Friendship Quotes
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
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
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, Antigone
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.Saint Teresa of Avila
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.Hubert Humphrey
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.Baltasar Gracian
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 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
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.Author Unknown
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.Marie Dressle
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.Charlotte Bronte
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert Humphrey
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 seen through the heart not through the eyes.Unknown
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.Joseph Addison
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is friendship caught on fire.Unknown
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
Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylo
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.Ethel Watts Mumford
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.May Sarton
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.Ibycus
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.Pam Brown
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
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.Charles Caleb Colton
