Friendship Quotes

C. c. colton - love is an alliance of friendship and animalism;...
Clive staples lewis - friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine...
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 precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
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
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
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
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butle
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Nigerian Prove
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
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
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Unknown
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
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
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 improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Breme
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
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
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.
E. R. Hazlip
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylo
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
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