Friendship Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Friendship
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~ Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ~

~ At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. ~

Li Peng

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. ~

Joseph Addison

~ 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

~ 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

~ The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ 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

~ If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Socrates

~ 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

~ Conversation, which is friendship\'s mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute. ~

Marcel Proust

~ I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex /but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other. ~

Lord Byron

~ A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. ~

Saint Francis de Sales

~ A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as experience shows that the callosity formed around a broken bone makes it stronger than before. ~

St. Francis de Sales

~ Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. ~

Francesco Petrarch

~ Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, ~

Joseph Addison

~ 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. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ 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

~ Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free. ~

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

~ The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~

Robert Southey

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

~ A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward. ~

Saint Basil

~ Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. ~

Mencius

~ Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. ~

Honore de

~ The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects. ~

Ali bin Abu-Talib

~ To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. ~

Cornelia Otis Skinner

~ 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

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