Friendship Quotes
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.John Evelyn
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
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
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.Aristotle
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.E. R. Hazlip
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.Charles Lam
Love is friendship caught on fire.Unknown
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.William Hazlitt
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.Eugene Kennedy
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.C. C. Colton
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
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
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
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.La Rochefoucauld
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.Sylvia Breme
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
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
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.George Santayana
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
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
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.Albert Camus
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.George T. Hewitt
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
