Friendship Quotes
A hedge between keeps friendship green.German Prove
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.Kahlil Gibran
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.Henry Ward Beeche
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
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
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
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
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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
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
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
True friendship is never serene.Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.Unknown
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.George Eliot
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
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
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.Golda Mei
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.Samuel Johnson
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
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.Author Unknown
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.Hubert Humphrey
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
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.Ethel Watts Mumford
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.Laurie Colwin
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
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
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
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 like a sheltering tree.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
