Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes on Friendship

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
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
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
- Mother Angelica
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
- George Foreman
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
- Voltaire
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
- Montesquieu
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Michel de Montaigne