Friendship Quotes
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 is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.Jeremy Taylo
Friendship is love with understanding.Author Unknown
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.Francis Bacon
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
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 never serene.Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.Clive Staples Lewis
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
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.Samuel Butle
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.Robert Lynd
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.Samuel Johnson
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 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
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.Victor Hugo
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.Author Unknown
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.Samuel Johnson
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.Blaise Pascal
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.Bertrand Russell V. Delong
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 marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.Randolph Silliman Bourne
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
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
Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylo
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
