Friendship Quotes

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself…

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

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.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.