Friendship Quotes

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
German prove - a hedge between keeps friendship green....
Charles spurgeon - friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life....
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
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 highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Unknown
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
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
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 is lost.
C. C. Colton
Friendship is love with understanding.
Author Unknown
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
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
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson