What Is Friendship Quotes

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Our friendship is stronger than most people because we talk and breathe in the same room and we eat and sleep in the same place

Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it.

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

A best friend isn't just someone who's always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.

Friends are proved by adversity.

She's a warm fart at Christmas.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.

To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Love is friendship with erotic moments.

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets.

A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.