Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life
– Yassine Aumerally
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
– James F. Byrnes
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship: Having someone with you doesn't mean it's your friend but having someone that is with you when you are in trouble is a real friend.
– Naomi Thomas
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
– Cicero
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
– Chiam Potok, The Chosen
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
– La Rochefoucauld
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
– William James
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
– Evelyn Waugh
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
– Sophocles
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
– Sophocles, Antigone
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
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
– Mignon McLaughlin
I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
– Unknown
If the friendship of the good be interrupted, their minds admit of no long change; as when the stalks of a lotus are broken the filaments within them are more visibly cemented.
– The Hitopadesa
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
– Charlotte Bronte
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
– Henry Ward Beecher
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
– Charles Kingsley
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
– Colette
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
– Lawana Blackwell
L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)
– Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
