Quotes about friendship

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.

I look for friends who make me laugh.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.

My brother is my best friend by choice and a superman.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get going by yourself, but if you have a plan and a meeting time, you know this run will happen for sure. It's a way to have fun - while also getting in a workout. Plus it distracts from pain, helps you fight fatigue, and gives you that extra push.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A friend to all is a friend to none.