Friendship Quotes

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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

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

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

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

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

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.

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

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

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.

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.

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

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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