Friendship Quotes

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Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author Unknown
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
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
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Cicero
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, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
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
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
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
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Danish prove
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
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
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
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
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
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
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
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
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
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
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
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
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