What Is Friendship Quotes

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.

You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust . . . if you found the right person . . . you really could have it all.

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

Real friendship, love, respect, and trust are all gained without a single dollar.

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.

The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

I love you and I'm here for you.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Isn't any friendship a love story?