Friendship Quotes

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Samuel butle - friendship is like money, easier made than kept....
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome, Lette
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Lucius annaeus seneca - one of the most beautiful qualities of true...
Henry david thoreau - the language of friendship is not words, but...
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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
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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
George Jean Nathan
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, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Evelyn Waugh
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
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
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Author Unknown
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 blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lam
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.
E. R. Hazlip
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
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
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
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.
Jeremy Taylo
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
C. C. Colton
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
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
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
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