All Quotes

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
‐‐ August Strindberg

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
‐‐ Stendhal

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
‐‐ Truman Capote

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
‐‐ Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
‐‐ Augustine Birrell

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
‐‐ George Santayana

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
‐‐ Jane Austen

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
‐‐ Plautus

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
‐‐ Aristotle

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
‐‐ Charles Eastman

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
‐‐ Max Jacob

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Friendship is Love without his wings!
‐‐ Lord Byron

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
‐‐ Robin Morgan

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
‐‐ Mencius

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
‐‐ Rowan Williams

Friendship is something that is cultivated.
‐‐ Thalia

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
‐‐ Sabrina Bryan

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
‐‐ Voltaire

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
‐‐ Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
‐‐ John Wooden

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
‐‐ Lord Byron

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
‐‐ Albert Camus