Friendship Quotes

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Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Evelyn Waugh
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
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
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
Friendship demands attention.
Sir Thomas More
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Eugene Kennedy
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, Antigone
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Danish prove
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Author Unknown
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 language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Unknown
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
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon