Friendship Quotes

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beeche
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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
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Irish Prove
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
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Madame de Tencin
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
I do not believe the expenditure of $2. 50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Evelyn Waugh
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
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Breme
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
Where you find true friendship, You find true love.
Unknown
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
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
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
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 always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is love with understanding.
Author Unknown
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison, (1672 - 1719)
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author Unknown
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
German Prove
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal