Friendship Quotes
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.Samuel Butle
Friendship demands attention.Sir Thomas More
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
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.Randolph Silliman Bourne
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
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.Francis Bacon
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.Danish prove
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
Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylo
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.George Eliot
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.Blaise Pascal
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 is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.Eustace Budgell
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.John Evelyn
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.Laurie Colwin
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.Irish Prove
The friendship that can cease has never been real.Saint Jerome, Lette
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
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
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
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
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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 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 greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.Joseph Addison
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
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
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
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
