Quotes
Quotes about Friendship
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
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.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together. -Unknown.
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. -Unknown.
Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
