Quotes About Friendship

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Make friendship a fine art.

Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.