Friendship Quotes

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

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

William Blake

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

Unknown

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Clive Staples Lewis

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Clive Staples Lewis

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butle

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

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

Randolph Silliman Bourne

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Chiam Potok, The Chosen

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

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

I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

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

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Saint Jerome, Lette

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Francis Bacon

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

Irish Prove

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

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Ibycus

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert Humphrey

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert Humphrey

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Author Unknown

Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes