Quotes About Friendship

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be

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

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

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

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

A brief candle,both ends burning An endless mile, a bus wheel turning A friend to share the lonesome times A handshake and a sip of wine So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces