Friendship Quotes

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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.

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

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

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.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

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

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

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

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?

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

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

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

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.

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

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

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.

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