Friendship Quotes

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist... The therapy effected by life itself is not, however, within one's control. Neither hardships nor friendships nor religious experience can be arranged to meet the needs of the particular individual. Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may entirely crush another.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Augustine Birrell

A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.

Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious — friendship and learning.

Jane Ellen Harrison

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

Morrie Schwartz

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Brontë

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

William Shenstone

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family — but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

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

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.