Friendship Quotes

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Derek Bethune

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

George Santayana

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

Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)

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

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

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.

Albert Camus

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

John Evelyn

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

William Blake

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

James F. Byrnes

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

Irish Prove

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 begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

Joan Walsh Anglund

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Robert Lynd

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

C. C. Colton

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

Clive Staples Lewis

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

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Ibycus

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Dave Tyson Gentry

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

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

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adle

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

Joseph Addison

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Where you find true friendship, You find true love.

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