Friendship Quotes
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.Joseph Parry
Friendship demands attention.Sir Thomas More
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.C. C. Colton
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.Irish Prove
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.Madame de Tencin
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
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
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.Baltasar Gracian
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.Charlotte Bronte
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.Unknown
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.Jorge Luis Borges
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.William Hazlitt
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
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, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.Randolph Silliman Bourne
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.Ethel Watts Mumford
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.Sallust, The War with Catiline
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.Rabindranath Tagore
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.Sallust
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
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.Samuel Butle
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.George Santayana
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.Author Unknown
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
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.Francis Bacon
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
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 holy passion of Friendship is 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
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
