At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables)
– Victor Hugo
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life
– Yassine Aumerally
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)
– Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
– Samuel Johnson
True friendship is never serene.
– Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
– Golda Meir
Your Hardship is a test of friends and friendship
– The Omani Shed
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
– Samuel Butler
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
– Muhammad Ali
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
– William Blake
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
– Socrates
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
– William Shakespeare
Love is friendship caught on fire.
– Unknown
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
– John D. Rockefeller Jr.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
– German Proverb
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
– Fawn M. Brodie
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
– Saint Basil
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
– George Washington
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
– Derek Bethune
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
– Thomas Jefferson
