Friendship Quotes

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.