Friendship Quotes and Sayings 5

FRIENDSHIP QUOTES (5)

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

~Lord Byron

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

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

~Ernie Banks

Opposition is true friendship.

~William Blake

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

~Charles Dickens

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

~Anton Chekhov

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

~Samuel Butler

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

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

~Tahar Ben Jelloun

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

~H. L. Mencken

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

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

~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

~Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

~Francis Bacon

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

~Lauren Conrad

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

~Saint Teresa of Avila

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

~St. Jerome

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

~William Glasser

Love is friendship set on fire.

~Jeremy Taylor

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

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

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

~Aimee Teegarden

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

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

~Charles Lamb

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

~Jane Austen

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

~Paul Theroux

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

~Thomas Fuller

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

~Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

~Samuel Johnson

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

~Thomas Aquinas

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

~Simone Weil

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

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

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

~William Hazlitt

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

~Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

~Stendhal

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

~Mason Cooley

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

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

~George Santayana

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

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

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

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

~Emma Bunton

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

~Ernie Banks

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

~Charles Caleb Colton

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

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

~Joel Edgerton

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

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

~Adam Sandler

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

~Seneca

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

~Charles R. Swindoll

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

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

~Barbara Bush

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

~Zhang Ziyi

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

~Gertrude Stein

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

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

~Gilbert Parker

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

~Austin O'Malley

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

~Plautus

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