Friendship Quotes
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.La Rochefoucauld
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 by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
The holy passion of Friendship is of 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
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Les Miserables.Victor Hugo
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.Nigerian Prove
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.Randolph Silliman Bourne
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 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
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.Hubert Humphrey
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.Danish prove
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 one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.Charles Spurgeon
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
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.Joseph Addison
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.Carmen Sylva
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
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.C. C. Colton
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.Unknown
A hedge between keeps friendship green.German Prove
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.Henry Ward Beeche
Friendship is love with understanding.Author Unknown
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.Sallust, The War with Catiline
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
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.Saint Teresa of Avila
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
