Friendship Quotes

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

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

"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

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

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"Big Red Machine is really a community effort: I guess it involves almost 30 musicians. It does come out of our friendship, but it's really something that is deeply collaborative."

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

"We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary."

"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."

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

"If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!"

"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."

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."

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

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

"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."

"Love is a friendship set to music."

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."

"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."

"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."