Quotes about Friendship
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
— Samuel Johnson
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
— Elbert Hubbard
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
— Charles Dickens
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
— Anais Nin
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
— Henry David Thoreau
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
— Aristotle
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
— Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
— Thomas Jefferson