Friendship Quotes

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
George eliot - friendship is the inexpressible comfort of...
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Author Unknown
Laurie colwin - friendship is not possible between two women, one...
Unknown - love is friendship caught on fire....
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
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
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
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
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
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
Unknown
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Marie Dressle
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
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
Golda Mei
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome, Lette
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Unknown
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
C. Neil Strait
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
German Prove
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Breme
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley