Quotes About Friendship

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

'Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself

We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.

We can't bear to be deceived by our enemies, and betrayed by our friends; yet are often content to be so served by ourselves.

Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation.

Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.

We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

Katherine, for her part, understood that New York could be the loneliest place in the world and she told people she wanted to be "fun to be around.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

All things are in common among friends.