Friendship Quotes - page 5

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. (Montesquieu)
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
There can be no friendship without confidence, an no confidence without integrity. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The endearing elegance of female friendship. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. View quote
Théophile Gautier
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. View quote
Mencius
The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. (James McNeill Whistler)
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind. View quote
Joseph Addison
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. View quote
Robert Southey
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. View quote
George Washington
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. View quote
Francis de Sales
True friendship is never serene. View quote
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. View quote
Ernie Banks
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. (Saki)
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. View quote
Mortimer Adler
Love and friendship exclude each other. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. View quote
Charles Péguy