Collected Quotes on Friendship

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -- Charles Caleb Colton

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."-- unknown

"A faithful friend is a strong defense; and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure." -- Sirach 6:14

"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."-- unknown

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." -- Mencius

"I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness."-- Elmer Diktonius

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."-- Oscar Wilde

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"-- unknown

"I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself." -- Anais Nin

"Life without friendship is like the sky without sun." -- Anonymous

"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."-- George Washington

"The only way to have friends is to be one."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."-- Author Leo Rosten

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." -- Confucius

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." -- Shakespeare

"May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it."  -- Charles Dickens

"One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again." -- Judith Viorst

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.

If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway." -- Mother Teresa