Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bond of True Friends (Page 2)

"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce"

"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one"

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words"

Cicero, Philosopher

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"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

"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure"

Edward Young, Poet

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship"

Lord Byron, Poet

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy"

George Santayana, Philosopher

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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"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

"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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