Friendship Quotes

Francis bacon - there is little friendship in the world, and...
William blake - the bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship....
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butle
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
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
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
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 friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome, Lette
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust, The War with Catiline
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
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
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Marie Dressle
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
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Chiam Potok, The Chosen
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
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
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
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
C. Neil Strait
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
C. C. Colton
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Evelyn Waugh
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.
Albert Camus