Friendship Quotes

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Rose, Breathing, Sweets

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

Fear, Friends, Makes

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Loneliness, Words, Solitude

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman

Enough, Learned

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

Heart, Friend, Giving

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

Poetry, Friends, Others

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friend, Self, Second

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama

Black, Friends, Students

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Charles Darwin

Best, Worth, Measures

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman

Family, Character, Easy

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy

Life, Simple, Nothing

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

Bird, Web, Nest

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

Best, Friends, Old

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King Solomon

Friend, Iron, Sharpens

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness, Joy, Misery

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving

Heart, Friends, Sun

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

Important, Friends, Frank

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

Shade, Companion, Casts

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friend, Special, Face

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

Nothing, Friends, Chance

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Joseph Brodsky

Family, Human, Friends

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville

Love, Truth, Said

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
Taylor Swift

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides

Life, Friend, Blessing

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Love, Less, Demands

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