Friendship Quotes

Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - love is blind friendship closes its eyes....
George washington - true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and...
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
Friendship demands attention.
Sir Thomas More
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
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 multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
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
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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 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
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
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
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
C. Neil Strait
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
C. C. Colton
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Danish prove
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
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
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca