Friendship Quotes
The friendship that can cease has never been real.Saint Jerome, Lette
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
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
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.George T. Hewitt
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.Unknown
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.Sylvia Breme
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 can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.Charles Lam
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 a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.Sophocles
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.Albert Camus
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
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 neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.David Grayson
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.Sir Francis Bacon
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.Golda Mei
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 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 is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.Kahlil Gibran
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.Francis Bacon
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.C. C. Colton
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
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
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.William Blake
