My Friendship Quotes

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

I enjoy the friendship and companionship of others

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.