Friendship Quotes
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
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
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
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.Unknown
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.Christine Leefeldt
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
Love is friendship caught on fire.Unknown
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
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.Francois Mauriac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.Kahlil Gibran
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.Chiam Potok, The Chosen
Friendship is love with understanding.Author Unknown
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.Madame de Tencin
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.Saint Teresa of Avila
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.Charles Caleb Colton
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.George T. Hewitt
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.Author Unknown
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.George Santayana
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.Thomas Jefferson
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
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.Ethel Watts Mumford
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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 finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.Sylvia Breme
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
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.Laurie Colwin