Friendship Quotes

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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
Dean Koontz
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
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
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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Derek Bethune
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
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
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butle
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
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
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
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
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Cicero
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Danish prove