Friendship Quotes

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.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

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.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.