Friendship Quotes
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.John D. MacDonald
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.Henry Ward Beeche
Friendship is love with understanding.Author 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
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
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
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.Victor Hugo
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
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.Irish Prove
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.Sir Francis Bacon
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.George T. Hewitt
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.Samuel Johnson
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
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.Kahlil Gibran
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
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
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.Francois Mauriac
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
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.Clive Staples Lewis
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.Randolph Silliman Bourne
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.Ethel Watts Mumford
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.Author Unknown
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.Saint Teresa of Avila
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
