Friendship Quotes
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
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
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.Irish Prove
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Socrates
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.William Blake
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.C. C. Colton
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
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 is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.George Santayana
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.Clive Staples Lewis
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
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
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.David Grayson
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert Humphrey
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
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
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.Joseph Addison
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
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.Samuel Johnson
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
Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylo
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.Victor Hugo
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.Sylvia Breme
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.Cicero
Love is friendship caught on fire.Unknown
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.George T. Hewitt
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.Author Unknown
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.Carmen Sylva