Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Votes: 5
Martin Luther King, Jr.You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation. Votes: 5
Hill HarperFriendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved. Votes: 4
Henry Clay TrumbullFriendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades. Votes: 4
Elisabeth of WiedFriendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self. Votes: 4
David BrooksFriendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love. Votes: 4
Ed CunninghamFriendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need. Votes: 4
Hugh BlackFriendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. Votes: 3
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxFriendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience. Votes: 3
Samuel JohnsonFriendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts. Votes: 3
Napoleon HillFriendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins. Votes: 3
H. L. MenckenFriendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything. Votes: 3
Stephen SondheimFriendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex. Votes: 3
Philibert Joseph RouxFriendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. Votes: 3
Augustus William HareFriendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonFriendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. Votes: 3
James F. ByrnesFriendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. Votes: 3
Edward YoungUltimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeIt is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant.... Votes: 3
Philippe SoupaultFriendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed. Votes: 3
Laurie ColwinFriendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. Votes: 3
Robert Staughton LyndFriendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love. Votes: 3
Ninon de L'EnclosFriendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Votes: 3
Alice WalkerFriendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceFriendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. Votes: 3
Augustine BirrellFriendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it. Votes: 3
Kathleen NorrisOne of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Votes: 2
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. Votes: 2
Mark TwainWhen we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. Votes: 2
William Arthur WardIt is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonValue friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. Votes: 1
Henry Clay TrumbullTrue friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldInterest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. Votes: 0
Philibert Joseph RouxGood fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. Votes: 0
William WycherleyThe essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. Votes: 0
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeWoman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil. Votes: 0
Saint John ChrysostomYou cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies. Votes: 0
Frank Moore ColbyEnvy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldBut friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it. Votes: 0
Dagobert D. RunesOne minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! Votes: 0
Gabriel García MárquezHowever rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOne minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. Votes: 0
Katherine MansfieldA quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Votes: 0
Saint Francis de SalesFor prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Votes: 0
Saint Teresa of AvilaHe who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. Votes: 0
Seneca the ElderWhat is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul. Votes: 0
Philibert Joseph RouxIt isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. Votes: 0
Lawana BlackwellI desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareTo give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroAs nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.
Henry Home, Lord KamesHe removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThis is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
William ShakespeareA friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
James Russell LowellNeither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAs long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
Henry David ThoreauFor in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
Richard Brinsley SheridanFriendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.
William ShakespeareBecause our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
Henry Ward BeecherWe can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.
Kimberly KirbergerThe foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
Ludwig van BeethovenBy ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
Mahatma GandhiFriendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Marcus Tullius CiceroCeremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William WycherleyFriendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
Baron de MontesquieuIn order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.
Christopher JonesLove will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeNo one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?
Natalie PortmanFriendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.
Tahereh MafiAn acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar WildeLet us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. Scott FitzgeraldFriendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
Gregory David RobertsWho ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Alexander PopeVery few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
C. S. LewisTo remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off
Christopher HitchensEvery expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.
Dean Koontzone doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.
Helen Clark MacInnesFor me, as far as friendship goes, I think you truly get out of it, what you put into it.
Miles TellerTo have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.
Neale Donald WalschIn the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
Richard RussoWhen you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.
Sam WorthingtonIn friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
William ShakespeareThe golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.
David W Augsburger... both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ...
Dorothy GilmanLove begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.
Jean de la BruyereA band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
Julian CasablancasBefore I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.
Marva CollinsI love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
Michel de MontaigneChrist's love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.
Pope FrancisI hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell HolmesA generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
Alexander PopeI don't know that sex always has to have feelings, but I think that friendship always does.
Ashton KutcherHappy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.
Bion of SmyrnaTo a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
Fanny BurneyFriendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
Francis BaconThe most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
Gotthold Ephraim LessingTrue friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
Jacqueline CareyFriendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.
James BoswellEach new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
Kate DiCamilloThe test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
Mahatma GandhiFriendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFriendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of OrreryShare love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.
Yehuda BergWe should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
Friedrich NietzscheEvery friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.
Janet Erskine StuartI have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.
Martin SchulzFriendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.
Robert Staughton LyndAdversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
Soren KierkegaardFriendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
Barry HumphriesBarak Obama got involved, I don't know if Brexit was through a friendship with David Cameron.
Donald TrumpFriendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
Umberto EcoTrue worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.
William TempleFriendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.
C. S. LewisThis is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
David LevithanPeople may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.
Elizabeth SimsIf one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
Graham GreeneLove, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.
Jean de la BruyereMostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
John GroganIn the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.
Jules RenardSome loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
Raymond E. FeistThe band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.
William ShakespeareNothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
Anton ChekhovFriendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.
LL Cool JWhen love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.
Mason CooleyOne's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.
Maxwell MaltzMet you as a stranger Took you as a friend Hope we meet in Heaven Where friendship never ends
Raheel SharifPerhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn't any easier than love.
Brigitte BardotWe need to build a Biblical friendship, a friendship established on the principles of God's Word.
Gary InrigRealize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.
Goswami KriyanandaTruth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneThe vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]
OvidTo this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.
Barack ObamaOur friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
Benjamin NetanyahuMathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!
James TantonFriendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
Philibert Joseph Rouxbut they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
David NichollsThe bond between America and Japan and the friendship between our two peoples runs very, very deep.
Donald TrumpIt is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPerhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.
Gladys TaberNo friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.
Hugh BlackWe are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don't want to tell us.
J. LynnA friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
John D. RockefellerFriendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum TateRespect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ?
Robert E. LeeIf we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Robert Louis StevensonTheir friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
Ann BrasharesWe have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick
David ErvineFriendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarried people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage
Marion D. HanksI have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.
Phoebe Waller-BridgeTo hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel JohnsonFriendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
Sophie Swetchine