Quotes about Friendship

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

He lambastes Catholics. He opposes the J. B. Phillips version of the Bible because Phillips had a friendship with C. S. Lewis, who drank beer and smoked a pipe.

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.

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman's life is that