Friendship Quotes

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

George T. Hewitt

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

Sallust, The War with Catiline

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

Epicurus

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Ibycus

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

Irish Prove

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Clive Staples Lewis

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lam

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

Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.

C. Neil Strait

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

David Grayson

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

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

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

Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

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

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

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.

E. R. Hazlip

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

True friendship is never serene.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

William James

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butle

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adle

The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Eugene Kennedy

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

May Sarton

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

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