Friendship Quotes
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.David Grayson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.Samuel Johnson
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, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
True friendship is never serene.Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.Francois Mauriac
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.John D. MacDonald
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
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.Francis Bacon
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
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.Charles Spurgeon
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Socrates
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.Madame de Tencin
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.Thomas Jefferson
Love is friendship caught on fire.Unknown
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.William Hazlitt
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.Clive Staples Lewis
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.Albert Camus
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.Chiam Potok, The Chosen
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
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
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
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.Jorge Luis Borges
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
