Quotes About Friendship

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devoted flame, thou say'st I speak too boldly

Love and friendship exclude each other

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Make friends not enemies, and you will always have eyes in the back of your head.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

The 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-hatched unfledged comrade.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

The only way to have a friend is to be one

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

I look at my myself; and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you don't say.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.