Friendship Quotes

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Derek Bethune

Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

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 a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.

E. R. Hazlip

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert Humphrey

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Blaise Pascal

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

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

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

Unknown

Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.

May Sarton

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

German Prove

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

George Santayana

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Clive Staples Lewis

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.

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

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Joseph Parry

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

I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beeche

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Sallust, The War with Catiline

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