Friendship Quotes

Unknown - where you find true friendship, you find true...
Clive staples lewis - friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine...
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
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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 is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
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
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 friendship caught on fire.
Unknown
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Clive Staples Lewis
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Danish prove
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylo
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
German Prove
Friendship is love with understanding.
Author 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
The holy passion of Friendship is of 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
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
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
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 bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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