Friendship Quotes

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butle
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Friendship demands attention.
Sir Thomas More
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adle
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 4, 2003
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.
William Hazlitt
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
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
Clive Staples Lewis
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
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
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 multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Breme
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Unknown
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell V. Delong
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 make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
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