Friendship Quotes

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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
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 hardest thing in the world to explain. It? s not something you learn in school. But if you haven? t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven? t really learned anything.
Mohammad Ali, Newspaper, Daily Herald
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Author Unknown
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - Just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.
E. R. Hazlip
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
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
C. C. Colton
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Unknown
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome, Lette
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
David Grayson
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butle
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
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, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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 the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
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
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Danish prove
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 will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
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 worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington