Friendship Quotes

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The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Mark Twain

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

- Ann Richards

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

- Katherine Mansfield

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

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

- George Washington

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

- Theodore H. White

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

- Samuel Johnson

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

- Jessamyn West

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

- Jane Austen

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

- Henri Nouwen

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

- Seneca