Friendship Quotes

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

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.

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

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.

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

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Opposition is true friendship.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

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

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.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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.

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.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.