Explore Quotes on Friendship

Let us be kinder to one another.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Love is friendship set to music.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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

That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.