Friendship

(366 votes)   One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Geoffrey F. Albert

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(364 votes)   Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(359 votes)   I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

William Adams

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(342 votes)   The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(339 votes)   Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(338 votes)   A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(337 votes)   Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(337 votes)   It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

F. Scott K. Fitzgerald

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(336 votes)   He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(323 votes)   The road to a friend's house is never long.

Danish Proverbs
Sayings of Danish Origin

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(318 votes)   Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(317 votes)   A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(311 votes)   The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(307 votes)   To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Paul Aubuchon

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(304 votes)   Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website