Friendship Quotes
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
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That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.
Owen Wilson
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When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forgiveness. Maybe we can at least go back to what we had before our fight, even if all we had was an awkward friendship punctuated by significant silences.
Beth Revis
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
Sophocles
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In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.
Beth Kephart
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Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
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One of the things about Scrubs is that it's about great friendships and... as broad and as serious as we get it's always really about friendship. It's about getting through the challenging parts of your life with the help of your friends.
Zach Braff
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William Hazlitt
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Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.
Edward Ramsay
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“The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.”
Elise Broach
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My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
Westbrook Pegler
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
William James
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When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
Mahatma Gandhi
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By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
Michael Morpurgo
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The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.
Catherine the Great
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.
Sarah Dessen
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I was just flirting with girls whom I had tingly feelings for because... well, you know... friendship.
Hannah Hart
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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
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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Kenneth Branagh
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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.
James Boswell
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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
William Glasser