Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bond of True Friends (Page 3)

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up"

Terence, Playwright

"Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation"

George Washington, President

"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends"

Samuel Butler, 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

"Love and friendship exclude each other"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures"

Seneca, Philosopher

"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

"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

"Friendship is a sheltering tree"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it"

Georg Brandes, Critic

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

William Blake, Poet

"Opposition is true friendship"

William Blake, Poet

"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks"

St. Jerome, Saint

"The friendship that can cease has never been real"

St. Jerome, Saint

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Friendships are discovered rather than made"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity"

Sallust, Historian

"Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success"

Sting, Musician

"All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity"

Sallust, Historian

"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies"

Mencius, Philosopher

"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world"

Barack Obama, President

"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 with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

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