Friendship Quotes

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller

Business, Founded

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Work, Friends, Fruit

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Women, Men, Football

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

Friends, Deceived, Distrust

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

Friends, Matter, Call

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams, Friends, Another

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

Best, Laughter, Bad

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

Friends, Whose, Favor

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya

Happiness, Give, Friends

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge, Ignorance, True

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

Fool, Yourself, Job

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Eyes, Blind

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford

Best, Friend, Brings

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Growth, Seen

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

May, Round, Encircle

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Friend, May

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Greatest, Gift

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin

Friend, Changing, Slow

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Single, Friend, Two

He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle

Friends, None, Hath

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya

Truth, Bitter, Behind

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Friends, Ourselves, Truly

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Purpose, Spirit, Save

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

Nothing, Friend, Heaven

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