Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. — Kenneth Branagh
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. — Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Friendships are not just a sentimental indulgence. They are a core part of the human experience. — Rangan Chatterjee
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. — Elie Wiesel
It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions. — Wallace Stegner
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society. — Robert Blair
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. — Seneca
Short Female Friendship Quotes
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason — Mason Cooley
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. — Joseph Parry
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace. — Alphonse De Lamartine
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. — Unknown
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives. — Anonymous
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. — Homer
Friendship and money: oil and water. — Mario Puzo
Female Friendship Image Quotes
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Beautiful Friendship Quotes
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. — Joseph Addison
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. — Helen Keller
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. — Robert Breault
I get by with a little help from my friends. — John Lennon
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. — Aristotle
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other. — Lysa TerKeurst
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. — Nicole Richie
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — P. G. Wodehouse
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. — Jane Austen
True Friendship Quotes
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. — Al Capone
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. — William Arthur Ward
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends. — Helen Steiner Rice
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. — Jane Austen
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. — Marilyn Manson
. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. — Ashleigh Brilliant
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde
Sister Friend Quotes
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin
Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. — Sayings
In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness. — Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Friendship picks you up when the world lets you down.
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. — Toni Morrison
I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end. — Adam Yauch
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. — James Patterson
Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ. — Tobin Heath
As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age. — Kate Winslet
In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend. — Catherine Killigrew
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. — Christina Rossetti
Male Friendship Quotes
The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age. — Wendy Wasserstein
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship. — Jeremy Brett
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch. — Debra Messing
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. — Irvine Welsh
All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure. — Michael Chabon
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive. — Stephen Marche
Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship. — Emily Giffin
Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us. — Barbara Holland
Unique Friendship Quotes
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Omar Khayyam
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer
Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special. — Erwin W. Lutzer
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. — Baltasar Gracian
Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do. — Stephen King
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you. — Gail Sheehy
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). — C. S. Lewis
Best Friend Quotes
A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones — John Lennon
If I could take your troubles
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend that is always there. — Kahlil Gibran
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. — Henry Ford
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend. — Harry S. Truman
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. — Abraham Lincoln
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. — Socrates
That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses. — Fela Kuti
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
Meaning Of Friendship Quotes
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation. — Queen Elizabeth II
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone de Beauvoir
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. — Rumi
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through? — Simone Weil
No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. — Gene Hill
I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness. — Thomas Mcguane
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. — Tim Winton
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. — Bruce Lee
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. — Plato
Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light — Sarah McLachlan
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. — Lincoln Chafee
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger. — Chin-Ning Chu
Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure. — Benjamin Harrison
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. — Elie Wiesel
As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others. — Dalai Lama
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever. — Barack Obama
We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do — Linda Blair
Positive Friendship Quotes
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. — Hafez
The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. — Neale Donald Walsch
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
We seek the fulfillment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. — Oliver Burkeman
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. — Theophrastus
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. — Nhat Hanh
When someone cares... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh. — Susan Polis Schutz
Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly. — Imogen Stubbs
I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations. — Beyonce Knowles
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. — George Eliot
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. — Abraham Lincoln
No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we're really like. I loved 'Bridesmaids'. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time. — Drew Barrymore
I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies. — Drew Barrymore
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. — Mindy Kaling
The endearing elegance of female friendship. — Samuel Johnson
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. — Edward Gibbon
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. — Henry Fielding
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736. — Jonathan Swift
I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life. — Lena Dunham
I was really scared that other girls hated me, that I wasn't pretty enough or cool enough or I didn't have enough Instagram followers or whatever. Finding female friendship was such a monumental point in my life. And I never want somebody to feel like they have to re-evaluate themselves to join my friends or to join any friend-group. — Rowan Blanchard
I feel there's so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life's going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you're 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you're 30, but you still need your girlfriends. — Kristen Wiig
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness. — Samuel Johnson
"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them. — Judy Blume
Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place. — Victoria Scott
In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time. — Greta Gerwig
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of. — Elizabeth Meriwether
I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please. — Gillian Jacobs
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone. — Anna Quindlen
Female friendships are of rapid growth. — Benjamin Disraeli
The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my books. I usually write a secondary love story, with maybe nontraditional characters. Sometimes I write older characters. I'm interested in female friendships, and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. — Maggie Shipstead
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. — Lena Dunham
It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly a loyal friend, then they wouldn't need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. I have a lot of good friends and not one of them has ever introduced themselves by saying, 'I'm a very good friend.' — Chelsea Handler
Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush. — Melissa de la Cruz
I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall of their bikes and choke on ocean water. — Sloane Crosley
I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend. — Emily Giffin
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