Friendship Quotes

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
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
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
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 steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust, The War with Catiline
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
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 growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
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 improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Evelyn Waugh
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Cicero
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
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 only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson