Friendship Quotes

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.

E. R. Hazlip

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Blaise Pascal

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

Irish Prove

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

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

Robert Lynd

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.

Albert Camus

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

Friendship demands attention.

Sir Thomas More

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

Joseph Addison

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Author Unknown

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

I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

David Grayson

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

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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 with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Author Unknown

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adle

Love is friendship caught on fire.

Unknown

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

George Jean Nathan

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 certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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