Friendship Quotes - page 6

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. (Woodrow Wilson)
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Confidence is the bond of friendship. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. View quote
Charles Lamb
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. View quote
Francis Bacon
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: «It's gonna go wrong.» Or «She's going to hurt me.» Or, «I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore ...» Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. View quote
Epicurus
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. View quote
Robin Morgan
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. View quote
Confucius
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. (Kahlil Gibran)
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. View quote
Arthur Ashe
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. View quote
John Wooden
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! View quote
Marie de France
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. View quote
Mao Zedong
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard. View quote
Mark Kingwell
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. (Marcel Proust)
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. View quote
Sophocles
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. View quote
Mark Twain
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
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? View quote
Emily Brontë