Friendship Quotes
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Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
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Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
R.K. Narayan
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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
Loretta Lynn
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Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.
R. A. Salvatore
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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
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There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
Baltasar Gracian
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.
Victor Hugo
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It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.
C. S. Lewis
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Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
John Wooden
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Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
William Hazlitt
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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
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A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.
Alessandro Manzoni
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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
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No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.
Saadi
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
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For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
Christopher Moore
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We did spend a great deal of time together while making this album (Pyromania). We spent a month in Ireland during preproduction without anyone or anything except our instruments and our amps. And believe me, a situation like that can really test your friendship. It's even tougher than being on the road where you have plenty of diversions to occupy your time. When you're thrown together in close quarters with only each other to deal with, your really find out what everyone's like. We came through that with flying colours, and that cohesiveness carried over to the recording session as well.
Steve Clark Def Leppard
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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
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
Jane Harrison
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
Jonathan Edwards