Friendship Quotes

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.