Friendship Quotes

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.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Love is a friendship set to music.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

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.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Love is friendship set on fire.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.