Friendship Quotes

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
Henry david thoreau - the language of friendship is not words but...
Ralph waldo emerson - the glory of friendship is not the outstreched...
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
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.
E. R. Hazlip
The holy passion of Friendship is of 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
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust, The War with Catiline
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Evelyn Waugh
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Clive Staples Lewis
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Author Unknown
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Danish prove
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.
William Hazlitt
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
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
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
Dean Koontz
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylo
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal