Friendship Quotes
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.John Evelyn
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
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.Irish Prove
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.Marie Dressle
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.Francois Mauriac
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.Samuel Johnson
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.Joseph Parry
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
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.Ibycus
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.Dave Tyson Gentry
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.George T. Hewitt
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.Jorge Luis Borges
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than 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
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.Clive Staples Lewis
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
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.Samuel Butle
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.Sir Francis Bacon
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.Francis Bacon
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
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.E. R. Hazlip
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
