Friendship Quotes

Ibycus - contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships....
Saint jerome, lette - the friendship that can cease has never been real....
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warne
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 always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
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
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
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
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
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
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
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lam
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, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
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 steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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 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 a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author Unknown
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
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
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
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
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.
Albert Camus