Friendship Quotes

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
German prove - a hedge between keeps friendship green....
George washington - be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and...
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
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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 finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Breme
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Clive Staples Lewis
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
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Unknown
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.
E. R. Hazlip
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.
William James
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
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
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
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
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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