Quotes on About Friendship

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.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.