Friendship Quotes

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

That which I would discover
The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

William Shakespeare

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

G. K. Chesterton

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

Friendship is a priceless gift that cannot be bought nor sold, but its value is far greater than a mountain made of gold; for gold is cold & lifeless - it can neither see nor hear, in time of trouble its powerless to cheer — it has no ears to listen, no heart to understand, it cannot bring you comfort or reach out a helping hand. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if sends not diamonds, pearls or riches but the love of real true friends.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.
People have voted for the party of their choice and we respect that. This is democracy.
I hold out a hand of friendship to the leaders of all parties and their members, and ask all of them to join us in working together to tackle the problems we face as a nation. An ANC government will serve all the people of South Africa, not just ANC members.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Beauty, wit,
High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare

Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.

The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

William Shakespeare

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau