Friendship Quotes

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

Unknown

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Robert Lynd

Friendship is love with understanding.

Author Unknown

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

John Evelyn

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Samuel Johnson

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

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

Unknown

Friendship demands attention.

Sir Thomas More

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Derek Bethune

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome, Lette

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

C. C. Colton

Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.

C. Neil Strait

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

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

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 is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.

Victor Hugo

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

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 is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

Cicero

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lam

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau