Quotes on Friendship

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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.

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

I take friendship very seriously.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.