Top Quotes About Friendship

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

Acquaintance Friendship
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Jena Malone

Friendship Leaders Love Religious Respect Talking Value
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Difference Friendship Genius Love Order Taste
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adler

Friendship Leisure
To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it’s a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Christopher Knight

Friendship May
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship Pity
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

Friendship Occupation Pretty
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Brooks Adams

Community Friendship Life Needs Rivalry Thought
In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

Tony Garza

Friendship Government Name People President states United Want
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Voltaire

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

Oscar Wilde

Beginning Ending Friendship Laughter
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

Adversity Friendship Growth
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

August Strindberg

Friendship Man Society Woman
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Jean de la Bruyere

Friendship Love Time
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There’s not a lot of love going around.

Jennifer Beals

Film Friendship Love Negative Relationships Talk
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller

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

Honore De Balzac

Belief Friendship Nothing
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Friendship Future Will
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

Alliance Friendship Name
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Friendship Wine
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

First Friendship People
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Edgar Allan Poe

Fidelity Friendship Heart Love Man Self
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

Friendship
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

Football Friendship Men Women
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

Friendship Love Lovers May
Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

Friendship Love
For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he’s another creative person who works as hard as I do.

John Frusciante

Friendship
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

Margaret Cavendish

Country Duty Friendship Necessity Poverty
I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

Eric Heiden

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Black Kettle

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

Augustine Birrell

Friendship Heart Sight Word
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Robin Morgan

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

William Hazlitt

Force Friendship Love Rules
Friendship is Love without his wings!

Lord Byron

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

Khalil Gibran

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Adversity Friendship
I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Richard Lugar

Friendship Russia states United
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.

Alban Berg

Friendship Joy Love Music Spiritual World
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

Lincoln Chafee

Appreciation Deep Democracy Friendship Nations
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Darkness Friendship Ignorance Knowledge
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Belief Cooperation Friendship Peace Philosophy Understanding
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Anais Nin

Friendship Love
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.

Paul Simon

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

Katherine Mansfield

Comfort Friendship Nothing Privilege
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

Earth Friendship Nothing
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

Friendship
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Samuel Richardson

Friendship Marriage Participation State Time
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