Friendship Quotes

Mortimer adle - friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of...
William hazlitt - even in the common affairs of life, in love,...
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
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
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
Clive Staples Lewis
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Danish prove
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
C. C. Colton
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
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
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
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
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
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
C. Neil Strait
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 only cement that will hold the world together.
Unknown
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
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
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Author Unknown
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana