Friendship Quotes

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

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

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

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

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

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.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

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.

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.