Friendship Quotes - page 3

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. (Charlotte Brontë)
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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? View quote
Eugene Kennedy
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. View quote
Bruce Lee
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. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life! and solder of society! View quote
Robert Blair
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. View quote
Joseph Addison
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. View quote
Joseph Addison
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. (Hubert Humphrey)
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. View quote
George Santayana
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. View quote
George Herbert
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. View quote
Laura Riding
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
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 Gracián)
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. View quote
Francis Bacon
Opposition is true friendship. View quote
William Blake
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
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. View quote
Ann Landers
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