Quotes for Friendship

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

E. W. Howe

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister's office or President's office or Parliament House or Foreign Ministry. For them, trade is an extension of their foreign policy.

Lee Hsien Loong

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

Yolanda Hadid

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

Lincoln Chafee

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.

Alain de Botton

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Robin Morgan

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.

Jean Cocteau

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Socrates

As a member of the bipartisan House-Knesset Parliamentary Friendship Group, I will always stand by Israel's right to defend itself against aggression, and uphold our shared ideals of democracy and prosperity.

John E. James

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Chanakya

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles R. Swindoll

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

Zadie Smith