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Quotes About Friendship

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
~ George Herbert
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
~ Gertrude Stein
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
~ Samuel Butler
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
~ Joseph Addison
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
~ Ray Bradbury
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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.
~ Jonathan Edwards
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
~ Arthur Ashe
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
~ Sting
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
~ Anton Chekhov
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~ Ann Landers
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
~ Simone Weil
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
~ Thomas Moore
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
~ Samuel Johnson