Friendship Quotes

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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

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.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

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

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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

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.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

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.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

My friends are my estate.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Friendship and money: oil and water.

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

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

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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

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.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.