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Quotes About Friendship

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
~ William Hazlitt
The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
~ Patch Adams
For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.
~ Robert Griffin III
The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
~ Publilius Syrus
Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.
~ Emily Giffin
Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.
~ Brian Jacques
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
~ Quintilian
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.
~ Francois Hollande
In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.
~ Beth Kephart
You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.
~ May Sarton
When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
~ Tim Heidecker
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.
~ E. B. White
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
~ William Hazlitt
What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
~ Alistair Cooke