Top 100 Friendship Is Quotes
#1. I gather we're old friends."
"By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.
Amanda Hemingway
#2. Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
#3. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean De La Fontaine
#4. Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#5. Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.
Sherry Thomas
#6. You made me see that friendship is a farce and trusting anyone other than myself is the biggest mistake I could make. It was a lesson I had been learning my whole life up until that point. But you tattooed it on my soul in a way I could never forget.
Aly Martinez
#7. True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart.
Anuj
#8. To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#10. So friendship is all about ignoring?
...
Fake smiles?
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Lies
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Promises which get broken?
...
Deyth Banger
#11. People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.
Bill Murray
#12. Friendship is not an obligation or duty. It is a sweet responsibility.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
#14. All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
Epicurus
#15. Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#16. If the first law of friendship is that it has to be cultivated, the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected.
Voltaire
#18. 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
#19. Most men love to see their best friend in abasement; for generally it is on such abasement that friendship is founded.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
#22. There's a thing in poetry called the caesura a pause between words, a silence. I thought: that's what real friendship is, too. Someone you can be quiet with. Someone who understands your mistakes and forgives you.
Margo Rabb
#23. A true friendship is one where you share both Philosophies and Vulnerabilities.
Philip McKernan
#24. When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver
#26. I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
Courteney Cox
#27. Making friends is easy but sustaining friendship is difficult ...
Debolina Bhawal
#29. The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
Chelsea Handler
#30. Friendship is necessary to our well-being - not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it's a universal need.
Susan W. Tanner
#31. Friendship is one soul in two bodies.
Pythagoras
#32. The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
#33. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#34. Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
Elif Shafak
#35. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire
#36. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.
Gregory David Roberts
#37. True Friendship is a bliss that no person should miss,As there can be only a handful in your life who can bestow it upon you no matter Who you are? Where you are? What you are? How you are? Always Hold on Tightly to them with the Ropes of Truth,Honesty and Trust
Abhishek Sundarraman
#39. For the secret of friendship is a mutual admiration, and it is the realization or suspicion that that admiration is lessening on one side or the other that swiftly breaks the charm.
Randolph Bourne
#40. Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
George Ebers
#41. One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
Marcelene Cox
#42. As rare as true love actually is, true friendship is still harder to find.
Jason Lloyd
#43. Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity ... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
Victor Hugo
#44. Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
Marlin K. Jensen
#45. Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Samuel Richardson
#46. 'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.
Rochelle Aytes
#47. Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
Abel Bonnard
#48. A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.
Bilal Philips
#49. I have spent years of my life sitting in my room, creating defenses of cynicism, darkness, and bleakness. Jed's friendship is the skeleton key to my fortress. He disarms me every time.
David Levithan
#51. Virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.
David Hume
#52. Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.
C.S. Lewis
#54. The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.
Goswami Kriyananda
#55. I am your friend," Gous said. "I drank with you, didn't I?"
Kline tried to nod but nothing happened. He could see the wrappings around Gous' hand staining with blood.
"Besides," said Gous, "friendship is one thing, God another.
Brian Evenson
#56. A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
Emma Bunton
#58. Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.
Kate Christensen
#59. Between love and a friendship, the crucial difference is that when the love breaks you will realise that the friendship is what kept the two of you together.
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#60. The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
Samuel Johnson
#61. Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
Benjamin Disraeli
#62. To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
Simone Weil
#63. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Ray Bradbury
#64. Aristotle said that friendship is only possible between two virtuous people. Therefore, friendship between us is impossible.
Sylvain Reynard
#65. I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.
Francois Hollande
#66. The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends
Maggie Stiefvater
#67. 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
#69. Maybe that's what real friendship is
getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.
Libba Bray
#70. Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.
Muhammad Ali
#71. It is not a rare occurrence among intimate friends that their friendship is strengthened when one has displeased the other but has afterwards humbled himself and asked pardon.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#73. Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Augustus Hare
#74. Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
Henry Van Dyke
#75. The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#76. Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
William Hazlitt
#77. Friendship is ... the sort of love one can
imagine between angels ...
C.S. Lewis
#78. The debt of friendship is never collected," he interrupted. "And nothing is ever owed.
Sharon Shinn
#79. Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed ...
C.S. Lewis
#80. We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you're still the same crew of friends. It's just the story that you have to tell.
Adam DeVine
#81. Friendship is a beautiful blessing. You may love your friends and they may love you, but that doesn't mean they should have unexamined influence in all areas of your life.
Steve Maraboli
#82. Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
Hanya Yanagihara
#83. I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.
Dorothy Allison
#84. Do you know what friendship is ... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Victor Hugo
#85. Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Friendship is the holiest of gifts;
God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!
It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
Everyone can have a friend,
Who himself knows how to be a friend.
Christoph August Tiedge
#87. Ought we to smile / Perhaps make friends? No: in the race for seats / You're best alone. Friendship is not worth while.
Philip Larkin
#88. Friendship is not a superficial thing; it is understanding the heart's feelings.
Debasish Mridha
#89. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that's to always learn from it.
Raven-Symone
#92. Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
Jamaica Kincaid
#93. Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
Gautama Buddha
#94. The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
#96. I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Jane Green
#97. Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#98. I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded,
Edward Snowden
#99. I once heard a preacher say, "The reason we sometimes connect so quickly with a complete stranger is because the friendship is not of this life, but is the resumption of a friendship from another." I do not know if this is true, but sometimes it feels true.
Richard Paul Evans
#100. Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
