Friendship Quotes
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.Epicurus
Friendship demands attention.Sir Thomas More
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 like a sheltering tree.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Derek Bethune
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
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert Humphrey
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.Saint Basil
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.Clive Staples Lewis
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.Thomas Jefferson
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
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.Unknown
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 is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
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
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 is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.George Eliot
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.George Santayana
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylo
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.Charles Caleb Colton
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
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 the highest degree of perfection in society.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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 improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.Unknown
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.La Rochefoucauld
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.Richard Burton
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
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.Ethel Watts Mumford
