Friendship Quotes

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

~ Jane Austen

Love is friendship set on fire.

~ Jeremy Taylor

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

~ Lord Byron

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

~ Larry Flynt

Love is a friendship set to music.

~ Joseph Campbell

Love and friendship exclude each other.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

~ Confucius

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

~ Jacqueline Leo

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

~ Malcolm Arnold

I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication.

~ Diane Lane

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

~ Hilaire Belloc

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

~ Anne Lamott

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

~ Amy Grant

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

~ Thomas Aquinas

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.

~ Eugène Ionesco

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

~ Woodrow Wilson

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

~ Jennifer Aniston

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

~ William Hazlitt

The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.

~ Toni Collette

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

~ Rowan Williams

Prosecutors say it would be next to impossible to get one teen to testify in court that another had slipped him or her a copied disc at lunchtime. And besides, isn't sharing music a time-honored part of teen friendship?

~ Charles Duhigg

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

~ Adam Clayton

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

~ Dennis Prager

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

~ Joseph Addison

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

~ Chanakya

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

~ William Hazlitt

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

~ Khalil Gibran

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

~ Douglas Brinkley

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

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

~ Jennifer Aniston

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