10/28/15

Quotes about Friendship


Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.  Jean de La Fontaine

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.   Woodrow T. Wilson

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.   Buddha

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.  Francis Bacon

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

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.  Proverb

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.    Joseph Addison

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.   William Blake

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.   Marcus Tulius Cicero