(973 quotes found)
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Michel de Montaigne
“True friends stab you in the front.”
Oscar Wilde
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
Antonio Porchia
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it”
Sylvia Bremer
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
“God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.”
Proverb
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh”
A. A. Milne
“Only a life lived for others is worth living”
Albert Einstein