Friendship Quotes

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.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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 is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

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.

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

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.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.