Category: Quotes About Friendship

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. -Lincoln Chafee

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. -Judy Holliday

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. -Sting

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. -June Jordan

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 Alexander Eastman

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

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. -Henri Nouwen

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. -Eustace Budgell

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

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

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. -Tom Lehrer

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. -John D. Rockefeller

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss. -Gerard Arpey

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around. -Jennifer Beals

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. -Maria Shriver

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -Albert Schweitzer

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. -Edward Young

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

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. -E. W. Howe

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. -Charles de Montesquieu