Friendship Quotes

La rochefoucauld - if we are to judge of love by the consequences,...
Saint basil - a tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds....
I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Evelyn Waugh
No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 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
Friendship is a horizon - - which expands whenever we approach it.
E. R. Hazlip
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Unknown
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow - Ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
David Grayson
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
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
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
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Saint Jerome, Lette
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.
Albert Camus
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