Friendship Quotes

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

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte

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

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

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butle

No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.

Francois Mauriac

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Samuel Johnson

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Danish prove

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Colwin

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome, Lette

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is love with understanding.

Author Unknown

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

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

Unknown

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Ibycus

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 the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

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

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

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell