What Is Friendship Quotes

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

I hope that the friendship between the members will always remain.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Make friendship a fine art.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

Best friends are forever. That's why they're called BFFs.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

All lasting business is built on friendship.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.