Friendship Is Quotes

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
- Mark Twain

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

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

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
- Namie Amuro

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

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
- Aristotle

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
- Aristotle

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

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
- Oscar Wilde

Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelled differently, and mean quite different things. Everyone can see that.
- Oscar Wilde

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
- Oscar Wilde

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

But it's not easy, because friendship is absent-minded or at least powerless. It cannot achieve what it wants. Perhaps, after all, it doesn't want strongly enough. Perhaps we do not love life enough.
- Albert Camus

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

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
- Robert Bloch

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
- Thomas More

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
- William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.
- William Shakespeare

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
- Ray Bradbury

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
- William Boyd

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

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
- Ann Brashares

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.
- Libba Bray

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
- Anita Brookner

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.
- Pam Brown

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
- Jean De La Fontaine

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

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

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.
- Charles Bukowski

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
- Emma Bunton

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

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.
- Emily Giffin

Friendship is Love without his wings!
- George Byron

Friendship is love without wings.
- George Byron

Friendship is Love without his wings!
- Lord Byron

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

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

And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's enough if he understands what you just said.
- Michael Chabon

Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
- Stephen King

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.
- Julia Child

Friendship is peace...
I shall not speak ill of you or try to ruin you; you will not speak ill of me or try to ruin me.
On the contrary, I shall give you what I have:
my love, my sympathy, my concern, my compassion, my total support of your cause,
and you will do the same for me.
- Sri Chinmoy

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.
- Kate Christensen

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life. Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person.
- Marilyn Monroe

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
- David Levithan

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it's difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there's nothing else you could ever want.
- Rachel Cohn

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I'm not sure if our friendship is strong enough to survive into next year when we're away at college. But. We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected. So I have to hope for us. All I can do is hope.
- Susane Colasanti

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
- Hunter S Thompson

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.
- Eoin Colfer

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
- Marcelene Cox

Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them.
- Sloane Crosley

We watch her walk into the spotlight she's been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, it's about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, it's about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it.
- Cath Crowley

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.
- Santosh Kalwar

True friendship is worth more than can be measured,
a quality forever to be treasured.
True friends will staunchly stand beside each other,
as loyally brother shieldeth brother,
remaining firm in spite of war and strife,
in poverty or sickness, throughout life.
True friendship doth endure while comrades age
from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.
- Cecilia Dart Thornton

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.
- Frank Delaney

True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
- Sarah Dessen

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
- Graham Greene

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
- E L Doctorow

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.
- Milan Kundera

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
- Charles Alexander Eastman

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
- Epicurus

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

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.
- Tibor Fischer

Friendship isn't be inseparable it's be separated and knowing nothing will change.
- Robert Fisher

Do you know what friendship is?' he asked.
'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.'
'And love?' pursued Gringoire.
'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
- Victor Hugo

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 always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
- Arthur Golden

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

No friendship is an accident.
- O Henry

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off
- Christopher Hitchens

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

In the late twentieth century we consider solitude our natural condition. Mates divorce, and even friendship is diagnosed as a disorder - co-dependency. So the concept of living a life interlocked with another human is unthinkable
- Penn Jillette

I crossed a line by making his family's personal business my own. But isn't that what friendship is? Isn't that what love is? It's more than caring and laughing and inspiring. It's about taking hurt and anger off people's shoulders and helping to carry the weight. It's more important to love people on the worst days than their best.
- Katie Kacvinsky

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
- Timothy Keller

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
- Timothy Keller

Sometimes friendship is just that, just being with someone.
- Miranda Kenneally

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
- Eugene Kennedy

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
- Jamaica Kincaid

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
- Charles Kingsley

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.
- Dean Koontz

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.
- Stieg Larsson

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 is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.
- C S Lewis

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
- C S Lewis

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.
- C S Lewis

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed..
- C S Lewis

Friendship is...the sort of love one can
imagine between angels....
- C S Lewis

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

...[F]riendship is a method of castration that doesn't use a sharp object.
- E Lockhart

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
- Charles Spurgeon

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.
- Tahereh Mafi

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
- John Marsden

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
- John Mayall

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
- Jay Mcinerney

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!
- Andrea Michaels

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosphy like art... It has no survival value; rahter it is one of those things that give valuse to survival.
- Alice Duer Miller

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

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

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.
- John O Donohue

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.
- John O Donohue

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
- John O Donohue

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Simone Weil

...friendship is something you do.
- Nuala O Faolain

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
- Osho

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
- Mario Puzo

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
- Charles Peguy

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

Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.
- Kristen Reed

The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist... Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time. (Fire From Heaven, Page 161)
- Mary Renault

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.
- Gregory David Roberts

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
- Sallust

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

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
- Lisa See

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.
- Antonin Sertillanges

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
- Mary Wollstonecraft

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
- Carol Shields

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
- Maria Shriver

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)
- Robin Sloan

Friendship is one of the grand fundamentals of Mormonism.
- Joseph Smith Jr

My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.
- Stevie Smith

Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?
- Wallace Stegner

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
- David Storey

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
- Sophie Swetchine

Friendship is our home, we'll go home someday.
- Alvi Syahrin

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that's to always learn from it.
- Raven Symone

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

I've got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirstyeverything I don't like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
- E B White

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
- J Donald Walters

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

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

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