Friendship Quotes

"Friendship has its illusions no less than love"

Stendhal, Writer

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies"

Plautus, Playwright

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them"

Hector Hugh Munro, Novelist

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"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"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"Came but for friendship, and took away love"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports"

Richard Burton, Actor

"Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II"

Pope Benedict XVI, Pope

"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost"

Alicia Machado, Celebrity

"The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"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

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth"

Chanakya, Politician

"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness"

Chanakya, Politician

"The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work"

Paul Simon, Musician

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady"

Thomas More, Author

"Friendship and money: oil and water"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

"Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is"

Malcolm Arnold, Composer

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

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