Friendship Quotes

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
Samuel taylor coleridge - sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there...
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Saint basil - a tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds....
Blaise pascal - few friendships would survive if each one knew...
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
David Grayson
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It? s not something you learn in school. But if you haven? t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven? t really learned anything.
Mohammad Ali, Newspaper, Daily Herald
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
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
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
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
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
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
Dean Koontz
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
Friendship is love with understanding.
Author Unknown
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
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
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
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
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
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lam
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
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
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld