Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

friendship

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Friendship is Love without his wings!

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

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

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

Friends are born, not made.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

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

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

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Love is a friendship set to music.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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

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

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Love is friendship set on fire.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

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.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

True friends stab you in the front.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

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

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

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Opposition is true friendship.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.