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Best Friendship Quotes

Increase bonding of your friendship with your close ones by sharing these interesting and nice quotes of famous people.


A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard


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.
Albert Camus


An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha


Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey


A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall


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


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow


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


Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats


Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington


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


True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde


A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle


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.
Thomas Jefferson


I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault



In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer


A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison


Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust


One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca


A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen


I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Charles R. Swindoll


The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant


A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane


Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker


It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley


The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen


A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller


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


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


I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch



My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle


Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln


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.
Khalil Gibran


Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau


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


There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas


A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein


Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard


Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau


When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham


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


The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


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


Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott


The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter


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


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus


She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison



When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe


A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales


Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh


If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller


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


The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone


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


Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo


A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell


Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck


I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield


The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard


Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius


But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes


Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine


Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle


A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau


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


Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau



We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux


Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald


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


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


Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian


Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold


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.
Charles Alexander Eastman


Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine


Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. Howe


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


It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard


A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
Judy Holliday


The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey


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


Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen


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


What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle


As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King Solomon


No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker


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


Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett


Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin


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



A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero


Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes


Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini


Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf


The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy


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


Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian


He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle


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


To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama


It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin


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


All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
Taylor Swift


Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Joseph Brodsky


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


One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana


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


Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides


Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan


It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston


Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys


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


There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Logan P. Smith


The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore


Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee


Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran


We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles


Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton


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.
Ray Bradbury


Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers


It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche


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


Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis


True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome


Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine


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


All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert


A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche


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


True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian


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


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


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


The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Larry Flynt



Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden


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?
Thomas Jefferson


Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel


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


One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir


True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau


Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell


Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron


If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne


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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero


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.
Truman Capote


What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes


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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero


However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey


Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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


Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor


True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton


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


Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
William Glasser


Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas


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


I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau


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



Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire


If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe


Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle


The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle Obama


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


Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley


The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey


Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville


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


Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson


All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust


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


I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Woodrow Wilson


She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez


The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama


If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson



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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson


Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler


A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore


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


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


It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier


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


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


Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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 Beecher


One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams


Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle


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


To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt


Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt


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


I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
Jennifer Aniston


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


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


There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt


Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt



The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt


No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine Albright


I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
Marion Cotillard


Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner


Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard


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


True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison


As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Neale Donald Walsch


Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana


Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson


The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome


Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake


To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil


Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein


If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Marie de France


It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert Hubbard


Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen


Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes


Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton


I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
Tahar Ben Jelloun


Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
John Wooden



Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young


When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver


Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson


I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
John Cusack


Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Jean de la Bruyere


You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe Biden


Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas Aquinas


General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen


I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
Harvey Weinstein


What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin


Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
Barbara Bush


Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Adam Sandler


Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de la Bruyere


I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau


I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
Courteney Cox


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 G. Bulwer-Lytton


Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Anne Lamott


My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
Anne Lamott


It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe



The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. Howe


Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager


I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
Jerry Lewis


Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert


A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Jena Malone


I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon


Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Sting


Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun


Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler


Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler


Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.
Shimon Peres


My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
Enrique Iglesias


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.
Jane Campion


No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey


Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
Paul Theroux



When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc


All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox


All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust


Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith


Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith


Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Plautus


Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor


Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb


Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Anna Freud


Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal


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


A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
Thomas More


If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte


Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Kenneth Branagh


Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Petrarch


To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust


The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
Sallust


The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Zedong


Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith


We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur Ashe


Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Seneca



I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
Neale Donald Walsch


Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
Trey Anastasio


It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
Paul Getty


Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu


I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
Warren Christopher


You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
Marilyn Hacker


My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
Georg Brandes


I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
Elizabeth Berkley


I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
Debra Messing


There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
Kenny Rogers


There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.
Carol Alt


I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
Joan Cusack


Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Namie Amuro


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.
Jonathan Edwards



The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick


When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
Marlo Thomas


Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Rowan D. Williams


I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
Jimmy Carl Black


Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
Charles de Lint


The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Charles de Lint


Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Johann Kaspar Lavater


Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
Russell Crowe


The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Jasmine Guy


My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
Tom Lehrer


For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa


Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad


Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley


Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.


Charles Lamb


Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Anna Freud


When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.


Maria Shriver


Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson


I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
John Cusack


Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Jean de la Bruyere


You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe Biden


Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas Aquinas


General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen


I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
Harvey Weinstein



What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin


Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
Barbara Bush


Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Adam Sandler


Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de la Bruyere


I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau


I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
Courteney Cox


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 G. Bulwer-Lytton


Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Anne Lamott


Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte


Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
Emil Zatopek


The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
Armistead Maupin


Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
Charles Eastman


For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.
John Frusciante


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


That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
Randy West


Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore


Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
Black Kettle


Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
Greg Bear



Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters


Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
Juan Antonio Samaranch


Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
Juan Antonio Samaranch


One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
Dan Fouts


They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
Henry Walter Bates


In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.
Dirk Kempthorne


We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
Dave Blood


Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
Lucan


Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren G. Harding


So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
John Tyler


To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Cornelia Otis Skinner


Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max Jacob


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


Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold


I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg


Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell


No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis Marion Crawford


Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
Eleanor Robson Belmont


My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
John Woo


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.
Tony Garza


Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum Tate


Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn



French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Ali A. Saleh


One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
Marcelene Cox


The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
Pope Benedict XVI


But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
Alicia Machado


When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
Eddie Murray


The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
Bradley Chicho


The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
Bradley Chicho


Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
Bradley Chicho


In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
Ernst Mayr


Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
Jane Harrison


The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Hector Hugh Munro


One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks Adams


The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
James Whistler


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.
Clifton Paul Fadiman


My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones


Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Eustace Budgell


Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
August Strindberg


To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
Christopher Knight


Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
John Mayall


The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
Jose Ramos-Horta


Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
Laura Riding


I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
Tim Finn


Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva

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