Friendship Quotes

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Gilbert Parker

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Barack Obama

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe. My friends have come to me unsought.... Will these, too, seperate themselves from me again, or some of them? I know not, but I fear it not; for my relation to them is so pure, that we hold by simple affinity, and the Genius of my life being thus social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and women, wherever I may be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.

J.K. Rowling

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

George Eliot

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Saint Francis de Sales

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

George Herbert

It is amazing how you can surround yourself with so many people you can call friends, and yet actually only have one or two real ones.

Jerry Grant Blakeney

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Elbert Hubbard

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Jane Harrison

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Jerry Lewis

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche