Quotes for Friendship

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Charles R. Swindoll

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Edward Gibbon

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance.

Rumaan Alam

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

Sam Hunt

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Your friend is your needs answered.

Khalil Gibran

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

My friendship circle is minuscule.

Fearne Cotton

There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.

Angela Merkel

The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn't the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.

Colin Morgan

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Lauren Conrad

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox