Friendship Quotes

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.
Jeremy Taylo
Saint basil - a tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds....
Socrates - be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art...
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Unknown
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
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Unknown
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.
Albert Camus
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
German Prove
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
David Grayson
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
George Santayana
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
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)
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
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
George Santayana
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Chiam Potok, The Chosen
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson