Quotes for Friendship

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

Carine Roitfeld

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

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

Honore de Balzac

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Khalil Gibran

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

Isabel Lucas

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

Hillary Clinton

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

John Wooden

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.

Alain de Botton

When I was at a tough inner-city school, drama gave me a friendship group. It's been so core to who I am and given me such confidence later in life.

Wes Streeting

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

W. Somerset Maugham

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

H. L. Mencken

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

John Wooden