Friendship Quotes

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

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

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.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

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

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

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

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.

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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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.

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

True friends stab you in the front.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

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

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

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

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

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

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

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.