Friendship Quotes
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.Sallust, The War with Catiline
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
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
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.C. S. Lewis
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Socrates
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert Humphrey
I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.Evelyn Waugh
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.Sylvia Breme
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.George T. Hewitt
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 a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.Mortimer Adle
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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 language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.George Santayana
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
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.Victor Hugo
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.La Rochefoucauld
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.Unknown
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
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
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
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 improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.Joseph Parry
