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Quotes About Friendship

Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.
~ Tim Sandlin
They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
~ George Thorogood
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
~ Jonathan Swift
If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.
~ Albert Camus
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
~ Seneca the Younger
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
~ Richard Russo
I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.
~ Tony Abbott
I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family.
~ Patricia Clarkson
When I want friendship defined - I look at my friends.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.
~ Rita Zahara
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.
~ Stephen Marche
Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
~ Alexander Pope
The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.
~ Kenneth Lonergan
And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
~ William Blake
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
~ Alexander Pope
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
~ Helen Keller
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
~ Oscar Wilde