Quotes About Friendship

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

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?