Friendship Quotes
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
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.William Blake
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.Thomas Jefferson
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.C. C. Colton
Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylo
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.Hubert Humphrey
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.Carmen Sylva
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.Clive Staples Lewis
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.Kahlil Gibran
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 precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.David Grayson
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
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
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
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
The friendship that can cease has never been real.Saint Jerome, Lette
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.Victor Hugo
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.Charles Spurgeon
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, Antigone
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
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.John D. MacDonald
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 greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert Humphrey
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.Sir Francis Bacon
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
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
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
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.Randolph Silliman Bourne
