Friendship Quotes

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Love is a friendship set to music.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.