Quotes for Friendship

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Saks helps to empower women through how they look and feel - and Bumble wants to give all women a platform to connect with other empowered women, whether that's in dating, friendship, or business.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Elbert Hubbard

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Thomas Fuller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.

Yolanda Hadid

Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

Marilyn Hacker

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Truman Capote

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Arthur Ashe

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

Alain de Botton

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Mencius

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.

Ted Nicolas

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

Alanis Morissette