Quotes on Friendship

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.

Author: Brooks Adams

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.

Author: Henry Adams

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.

Author: Joseph Addison

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Author: Mortimer Adler

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

Author: Mortimer Adler

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

Author: Mortimer Adler

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.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

Author: Muhammad Ali

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

Author: Namie Amuro

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

Author: Thomas Aquinas

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

Author: Thomas Aquinas

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

Author: Thomas Aquinas

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Author: Pietro Aretino

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.

Author: Aristotle

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

Author: Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Author: Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Author: Aristotle

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

Author: Arthur Ashe

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

Author: Jane Austen

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

Author: Jane Austen

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

Author: Jane Austen

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

Author: Francis Bacon

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

Author: Honore Balzac

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

Author: Ernie Banks

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

Author: Ernie Banks

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.

Author: Henry Bates

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

Author: Sean Bean

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

Author: Henry Beecher

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.

Author: Henry Beecher

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

Author: Henry Beecher

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.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

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

Author: Eleanor Belmont

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.

Author: Pope Benedict XVI

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Author: Augustine Birrell

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.

Author: Jimmy Black

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

Author: William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.

Author: William Blake

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.

Author: Dave Blood

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

Author: Kenneth Branagh

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.

Author: Georg Brandes

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Author: Fawn Brodie

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?

Author: Emily Bronte

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Author: Anita Brookner

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.

Author: Pam Brown

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Author: Jean Bruyere

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Author: Jean Bruyere

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

Author: Eustace Budgell

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.

Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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.

Author: Richard Burton

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Author: Samuel Butler

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Author: James Byrnes

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

Author: James Byrnes

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

Author: Lord Byron

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Author: Lord Byron

Love is a friendship set to music.

Author: Joseph Campbell

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

Author: Albert Camus

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.

Author: Truman Capote

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

Author: Lincoln Chafee

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

Author: Chanakya

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Author: Pierre Chardin

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

Author: Warren Christopher

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.

Author: Marcus Cicero

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.

Author: Marcus Cicero

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

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

Author: Sidonie Colette

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

Author: Charles Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Author: Charles Colton

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

Author: Charles Colton

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

Author: Confucius

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

Author: Marcelene Cox

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

Author: Francis Crawford

Life is a journey not meant to be walked alone, but traveled with others who lift you up when your spirits are low.

Author: Maya Angelou

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.

Author: Joan Cusack

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

Author: Charles Dickens

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Author: Charles Eastman

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

Author: Thomas Edison

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.

Author: Jonathan Edwards

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

Author: Ralph Emerson

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

Author: Epicurus

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

Author: John Evelyn

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.

Author: Clifton Fadiman

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Author: Jean Fontaine

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

Author: Jean Fontaine

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

Author: Harry Fosdick

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

Author: Dan Fouts

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

Author: Marie France

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.

Author: John Frusciante

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

Author: Thomas Fuller

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.

Author: Tony Garza

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

Author: Theophile Gautier

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.

Author: Khalil Gibran

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

Author: Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Author: Khalil Gibran

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

Author: William Glasser

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

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

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.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

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.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

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

Author: Dag Hammarskjold

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

Author: Jane Harrison

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.

Author: William Hazlitt

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.

Author: 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.

Author: William Hazlitt

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

Author: Eric Heiden

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

Author: Oliver Holmes

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.

Author: Oliver Holmes

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

Author: Oliver Holmes

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.

Author: Jose Horta

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

Author: Edgar Howe

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.

Author: Edgar Howe

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

Author: Elbert Hubbard

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.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Author: Hubert Humphrey

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Author: Enrique Iglesias

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

Author: Max Jacob

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

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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?

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

Author: Tahar Jelloun

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Author: St. Jerome

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Author: St. Jerome

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

Author: Samuel Johnson

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

Author: Samuel Johnson

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.

Author: Samuel Johnson

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

Author: Stephanie Jones

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

Author: June Jordan

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

Author: James Joyce

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.

Author: Dirk Kempthorne

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?

Author: Eugene Kennedy

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

Author: Black Kettle

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

Author: Charles Kingsley

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

Author: Christopher Knight

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

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

Author: Charles Lamb

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.

Author: Ann Landers

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

Author: Johann Lavater

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.

Author: Bruce Lee

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

Author: Gotthold Lessing

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

Author: C. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Author: C. Lewis

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

Author: Anne Lindbergh

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

Author: Lucan

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Author: Richard Lugar

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Author: Robert Lynd

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.

Author: Alicia Machado