Quotes on friendship
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Author, Unknown
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Kennedy, Eugene
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Unknown, Author
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Gracian, Baltasar
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Author, Unknown
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Santayana, George
Friendship is love with understanding.
Author, Unknown
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Craik, Dinah
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind."Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw."I just wanted to be sure of you."
Milne, A.A.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Jefferson, Thomas
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
Unknown, Author
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Menclus
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Author, Unknown
Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.
Strait, C. Neil
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.
McLaughlin, Mignon
A hug is the shortest distance between friends.
Unknown, Author
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Author, Unknown
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.
Miller, Alice Duer
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Author, Unknown
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
Author, Unknown
Love is friendship set on fire.
Taylor, Jeremy
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Paltrow, Gwyneth
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Howe, Edgar Watson
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Guicciardini, Francesco
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Blake, William
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Colton, Charles Caleb
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Humphrey, Hubert
True friends stab you in the front.
Wilde, Oscar
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Brown, Pam
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.
Schweitzer, Albert
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Woolf, Virginia
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a. m. that matter.
Dietrich, Marlene
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Mansfield, Katherine
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Tagore, Rabindranath
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Author, Unknown
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a. m. that matter.
Dietrich, Marlene
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.
Unknown, Author
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Howe, Edward W.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Author, Unknown
The building of friendship, family, community and love is more complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Near, Holly
