Friendship Quotes

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

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.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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.