Friendship Quotes

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

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Author Unknown

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Francis Bacon

Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

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

C. C. Colton

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

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

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adle

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Robert Lynd

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Randolph Silliman Bourne

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Madame de Tencin

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Kahlil Gibran

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

John Evelyn

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

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

Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.

C. Neil Strait

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

Chiam Potok, The Chosen