Top 40 Test Of Friendship Quotes
#1. The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
John Marsden
#2. The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
Bill Watterson
#4. The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#5. A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#6. The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
#7. People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Lisa See
#8. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Anne Carson
#9. The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)
Richard Paul Evans
#10. I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.
Mel Gibson
#11. A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time.
Lindsey Kelk
#13. When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.
Michelle Gomez
#14. The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#15. They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
Henry Walter Bates
#16. 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
#17. Their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.
Steig Larsson
#18. I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.
Martin Schulz
#19. I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.
Juliet Marillier
#20. Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#21. And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare
Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14
William Shakespeare
#24. A friendship will stand the test of time when all the good that is given is repaid in kind.
Theodore Volgoff
#25. I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.
Steve Pavlina
#26. That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#27. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. It is wrong to pass one's time in fretting, instead of sleeping on the Heart of Jesus.
Therese De Lisieux
#29. ...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#30. Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
William Boyd
#32. Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
William Hazlitt
#33. In every friendship, at some point comes a test. Never before in my experience, however, had it involved food.
Sarah Dessen
#34. It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.
Mo Ibrahim
#35. 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." ~ 'The Black Cat.
Edgar Allan Poe
#37. I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#38. There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
Amy Lee
#39. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Eastman
#40. It's fantastic that 'Strictly' is beating 'The X Factor' for many reasons - but one of the main reasons is I think it's a fantastic piece of variety television. It is live, varied TV whereby we are really hanging ourselves out by the seam of our pants.
Colin Salmon