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Quotes about Friendship


For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

John Dryden

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Woodrow Wilson

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.

James Fenimore Cooper

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

George Eliot

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship demands the ability to do without it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Evelyn

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La La Fontaine

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.'

Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis

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

Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

John D. Mencius

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

John D. Charles

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

George Santayana

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

William Shakespeare

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