Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
– Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
– Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others
– William Hazlitt
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
– Richard Burton
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
– Author Unknown
For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.
– Arthur S. Hardy
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
– George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
– Carmen Sylva
Friendship demands attention.
– Sir Thomas More
Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
– Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
– Joseph Addison
Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.
– E. R. Hazlip
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
– Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
– Mortimer Adler
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.
– Clive Staples Lewis
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
– Jane Austen
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is like a tree; it needs care in early days when it's a small plant and when it grows to a size of a tree, it is there for you for a lifetime. Sadly, many plants face an unnatural, abrupt, and painful death.
– Pradeep T
