Friendship Quotes: Celebrating the Bonds That Tie - Page 4

Celebrate the bonds of friendship with our handpicked quotes. Cherish and appreciate your friends through timeless words. Page 4 provides more friendship quotes.

Image of James F. Byrnes
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
- James F. Byrnes
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Image of Tim Finn
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
- Tim Finn
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Image of Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
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Image of Kenny Rogers
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
- Kenny Rogers
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Image of Alana Stewart
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
- Alana Stewart
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Image of Dustin Lance Black
If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.
- Dustin Lance Black
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Image of Clifton Fadiman
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
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Image of Ruth Jones
I knew I wanted to write about female friendship. I've got a few friends I've known since we were teenagers, who have spanned the decades, and I do find that a fascinating thing, that friendship can last that length of time.
- Ruth Jones
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Image of Katee Sackhoff
Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
- Katee Sackhoff
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Image of August Strindberg
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
- August Strindberg
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Image of Bradley Chicho
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
- Bradley Chicho
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Image of H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Image of Declan Donnelly
The first meaningful friendship moment we had was when Ant sent me a Fred Flintstone Christmas card and it said, 'To Dec from Ant, have a yabba dabba do Christmas.'
- Declan Donnelly
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Image of Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
- Aristotle
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Image of Charles de Lint
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
- Charles de Lint
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
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Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Image of Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Image of Eddie Murray
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
- Eddie Murray
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Image of Martin Freeman
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.
- Martin Freeman
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Image of Solange Knowles
When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.
- Solange Knowles
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Image of Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Image of Mariella Frostrup
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
- Mariella Frostrup
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Image of Jason Dolley
I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
- Jason Dolley
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Image of Udo Kier
I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.
- Udo Kier
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Image of Max Jacob
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
- Max Jacob
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Image of Henry Walter Bates
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
- Henry Walter Bates
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Image of Mortimer Adler
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
- Mortimer Adler
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Image of Mortimer Adler
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
- Mortimer Adler
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Image of Gilbert Parker
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
- Gilbert Parker
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Image of Mortimer Adler
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
- Mortimer Adler
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Image of Joan Cusack
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
- Joan Cusack
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Image of Dave Blood
We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
- Dave Blood
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Image of Jena Malone
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
- Jena Malone
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Image of Major Taylor
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
- Major Taylor
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Image of Randy West
That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
- Randy West
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Image of Li Peng
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
- Li Peng
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Image of Jimmy Carl Black
I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
- Jimmy Carl Black
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Image of Marilyn Hacker
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
- Marilyn Hacker
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Image of Namie Amuro
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
- Namie Amuro
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Image of Zhang Ziyi
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
- Zhang Ziyi
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Image of Warren Christopher
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
- Warren Christopher
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Image of Eric Heiden
I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
- Eric Heiden
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Image of Dan Fouts
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
- Dan Fouts
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Image of Paul Simon
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
- Paul Simon
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Image of Margaret Cavendish
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
- Margaret Cavendish
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Image of John Mayall
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
- John Mayall
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Image of James F. Byrnes
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
- James F. Byrnes
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