“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
ELIE WIESEL“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.”
PAUL AUBUCHON“Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.”
JANE AUSTEN“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than our own. ”
CHARLOTTE BRONTË“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
CHARLES CALEB COLTON“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”
GEORGE ELIOT [MARY ANN EVANS]“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity.”
KHALIL GIBRAN“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.”
DEAN KOONTZ“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.”
C.S. LEWIS“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.”
C.S. LEWIS“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
KATHERINE MANSFIELD“We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.”
GOLDA MEIR“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE“Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.”
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots.”
GEORGE SANTAYANA“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU“Friendship is love with understanding.”
PROVERB“Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty”
J.K. ROWLING“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'Sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.' I know I am very fortunate in that respect”
C.S. LEWIS“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship 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 kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ”
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.”
GEORGE T. HEWITT“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.”
BILL BRADLEY“The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has.”
ANONYMOUS“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
C.S. LEWIS“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ”
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.