Quotes on Friendship

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

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.

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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.

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.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

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.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.