Friendship Quotes

Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it we will receive it.

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.

It is not the services we render them but the services they render us that attaches people to us.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

Give and take makes good friends.

A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.

Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain to show them that we love them not when we feel like it but when they do.

If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Fond as we are of our loved ones there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Friendship increases in visiting friends but not in visiting them too often.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.

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.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.

Love your friend with his fault.

It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

What I cannot love I overlook.

Treat your fiends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus like mercy is twice blessed.

Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.

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.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.

Friendship is honey but don't eat it all.

Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.