Friendship Quotes

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

True friends stab you in the front.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

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.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Opposition is true friendship.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Love is a friendship set to music.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.