Value of Friendship Quotes

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

The Twelve Chairs is about the same thing. It's all about money or love. We know we need money, we know we have to get money, we know we have to hurt others to get money. But we don't know until maybe it's a little too late in life that love is the most important thing. Love, friendship, affection, bonhomie, whatever. Those are the only things that really count: to love and be loved.

When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.

A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.