Friendship Quotes

Samuel taylor coleridge - friendship is like a sheltering tree....
Dean koontz - we are an arrogant species, full of terrible...
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
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 precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author Unknown
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
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
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
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
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
C. Neil Strait
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Author Unknown
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lam
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Cicero
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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
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
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Chiam Potok, The Chosen
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylo
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
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 real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Eugene Kennedy