Friendship Sayings & Quotes
These friendship sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy-for friendship's sake. - William Blake
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. - Abraham Cowley
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. - Eugene Kennedy
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. And thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. - Benjamin Franklin
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot
Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty. - Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. - Charles Caleb Colton
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. - Sir Francis Bacon
'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. - Charles Lamb
True 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 most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? - Henry David Thoreau
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
True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine. - Thomas A. Burke
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? - Anais Nin
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. - Samuel Johnson
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion. [The Plain Dealer] - William Wycherley
To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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. - George Santayana
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island. To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. - Baltasar Gracian Y Morales
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. - Willa Sibert Cather