Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bond of True Friends

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Lord Byron, Poet

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship"

William Blake, Poet

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse"

James Joyce, Novelist

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable"

Bruce Lee, Actor

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Friendship and money: oil and water"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"Love demands infinitely less than friendship"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing"

Randolph Bourne, Writer

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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