Friendship Quotes

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Chiam Potok, The Chosen
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
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
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
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
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
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
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
Eugene Kennedy
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
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
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
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 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 without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author Unknown
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
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
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey