99 Quotes on Friends

1.  Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided. John Wooden
2. When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship. Marlo Thomas
3. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran
4. Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Aristotle
5. I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world. Kenny Marchant
6. I have a very close friendship with the skaters. Eric Heiden
7. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
8. My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. John Woo
9. Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. Namie Amuro
10. It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations. James F. Byrnes
11. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots. George Santayana
12. India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation. Pratibha Patil
13. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
14. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. Charles Eastman
15. 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. Oliver Wendell Holmes
16. The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. William Hazlitt
17. Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. Sydney Smith
18. 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
19. Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20. 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
21. A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
22. Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. Jane Harrison
23. There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. Carol Alt
24. 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
25. Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. Truman Capote
26. The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. Eamon de Valera
27. Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself. John Mayall
28. The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. Bradley Chicho
29. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. Friedrich Nietzsche
30. Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett
31. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde
32. To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up. Christopher Knight
33. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. Voltaire
35. Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. Mortimer Adler
36. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. E. W. Howe
37. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Khalil Gibran
38. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield
39. Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. Charles de Lint
40. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. Tony Garza
42. My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown. Julie Burchill
43. Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets. Eleanor Robson Belmont
44. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
45. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. Confucius
46. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle
47. There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher
48. The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger. Michelle Obama
49. Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight. Lauren Conrad
50. Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. Warren G. Harding
51. To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. Sallust
52. Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius
53. A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
54. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? Anais Nin
55. Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
56. Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt
57. Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. Edward Young
58. Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. James Joyce
59. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus
60. Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau
61. Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. George Herbert
62. Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. Charles Caleb Colton
63. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero
64. Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. Lucan
65. Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. Elbert Hubbard
66. She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome
68. Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas
69. Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities. C. S. Lewis
70. One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson. Dan Fouts
71. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. John Wooden
72. Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? Emily Bronte
73. A friend is, as it were, a second self. Marcus Tullius Cicero
74. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe
75. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Francis Bacon
76. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer
77. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey
78. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
79. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
80. Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. Bradley Chicho
81. True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Charles Caleb Colton
82. 006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters. Sean Bean
83. I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Henry David Thoreau
84. I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. Jerry Lewis
85. Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family. Trey Anastasio
86. Love and friendship exclude each other. Jean de la Bruyere
87. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard
89. If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller
90. The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. Larry Flynt
91. 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
92. You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter
93. My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. Stephanie Tubbs Jones
94. He who hath many friends hath none. Aristotle
95. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau
96. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus
97. I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. Paul Simon
98. For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do. John Frusciante
99. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. Charles Kingsley