Friendship Quotes

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
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 make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
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
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
C. Neil Strait
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
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 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
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author Unknown
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
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 are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
Christine Leefeldt
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
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