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Quotes about Friendship


Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

St. Francis De Sales

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Josh Aristotle

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Hazrat Ali (a.s)

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

Franklin Pierce Adams

May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather.

Dean Edward Bannerman Ramsey

True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Samuel Johnson

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Luis Bunuel

From wine what sudden friendship springs?

John Gay

What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine?

William Cowper

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