Famous Quotes
- True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau on Friendship
- 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 on Friendship
- True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Friendship
- True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
- Baltasar Gracian on Friendship
- True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
- St. Jerome on Friendship
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
- Joseph Addison on Friendship
- Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
- Barbara Bush on Friendship
- Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller on Friendship
- Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
- Hayao Miyazaki on Friendship
- We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
- Dave Blood on Friendship
- We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- Joseph Roux on Friendship
- We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
- Arthur Ashe on Friendship
- We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles on Friendship
- What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
- Andrew Sullivan on Friendship
- What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin on Friendship
- What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle on Friendship
- What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Friendship
- 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 on Friendship
- When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
- E. W. Howe on Friendship
- When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
- Hilaire Belloc on Friendship
- When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
- Marlo Thomas on Friendship
- When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
- Eddie Murray on Friendship
- When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
- Maria Shriver on Friendship
- When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
- Zhang Ziyi on Friendship
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen on Friendship
- When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
- W. Somerset Maugham on Friendship
- Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
- Anna Freud on Friendship
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle on Friendship
- Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Friendship
- 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 on Friendship
- Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
- Sarah Orne Jewett on Friendship
- You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
- Marilyn Hacker on Friendship
- You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
- Laurence J. Peter on Friendship
- You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
- Joe Biden on Friendship
- Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
- Anne Lamott on Friendship
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